Word: keep
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...acting, Du Pont, G. M., Chrysler and others like them had made their peace with the Revolution. They showed the rest of Business a way both to stay in business and to keep out of trouble. In making that deal, Business might or might not believe in the emergency; it did not care to say. It was of no moment, for Business was no longer in power...
...traffic load the defense boom might produce. When Burlington's Ralph Budd joined the Defense Advisory Commission, he did not seem worried either. In July, when traffic had risen to over 700,000 carloadings a week. Commissioner Budd urged the roads to fix up their bad-order cars, keep them below 6%. The Administration wanted him to force orders for 100,000 new cars at once, 500,000 by 1942. Mr. Budd preferred not to interfere with rail managements...
...planes, the key material is not steel but aluminum. Already harassed by an anti-trust suit that predated even Thurman Arnold, Aluminum Co. of America faced a much more important test of social responsibility in 1940. It entered 1941 with a 380,000,000-lb. market, enough to keep it at capacity. But latest forecast for 1942 is that aircraft alone would need 300,000,000 Ib. It was announced that Aluminum Co. by then would have 825,000,000 Ib. of capacity...
...came up last summer. Aluminum men, who knew they would need extra kilowatts if Defense lasted, helped the Administration lobby it through Congress. Yet the year's end found even Aluminum, Co. behind on deliveries. Sadly it prepared an advertising campaign for the peacetime customers it wants to keep. The copy: "If you find it difficult at the moment to get all the aluminum you want when you want it, you will know that aluminum has gone off to defend your home and country...
When Detroit's production lines, as though fleeing conscription, raced down the last quarter at 120,000 units a week, pessimists anticipated an inventory accumulation. Yet sales were too fast for dealers to keep more than one month's stock on the floors. Meantime the factories, still dodging priorities, managed to get in some advanced retooling (more facelifting) for the 19425. Having led every U. S. boom since 1921, Detroit could not be counted out of 1940-5. And it managed to keep its arms work (G. M. contracts alone totaled $400,000,000) as a sideline...