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...sheared-steel plate, now running short, a narrower plate produced in strip mills was substituted. Subcontracting was tackled hard by men like bull-shouldered, 300-lb. Charles E. Moore. A year ago, seizing on the bankrupt Joshua Hendy Iron Works, a dilapidated foundry in the middle of a pear orchard near Sunnyvale, Calif., Moore cleared off 34 acres of trees, put up 300,000 square feet of buildings, began to turn out mighty, two-story high, 271,000-lb., triple-expansion engines for the Liberty ships. Enough Hendy engines will have been produced by the end of 1942 to drive...
...victory is practically assured," declared Robert H. Orcliard '42, one of the ward captains, "because Bethlehem has come out in favor of giving the CIO what they want." Since all the other Bethlehem plants on the eastern coast are already under the CIO, or will be soon, Orchard said the company would prefer to have all its units organize rather than being forced to figure a system of wages...
...Connecticut apple orchard at the foot of Naugatuck's Elm Street, ground was broken for U.S. Rubber Co.'s new $2,750,000 synthetic rubber plant. This is the first of four plants planned by Defense Plant Corp., which handles the financing, leaves the management to the companies. The other plants will be run by Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone. The U.S. Rubber plant when completed in about a year will have an annual capacity of 10,000 long tons-a little more than 1% of the 800,000 tons that the U.S. now consumes annually...
Next twelve hours he was kept under armed guard in a major's automobile. At last they parked in a cherry orchard outside Belgrade. It was 6 in the morning; the major said he would deal with him when he woke at 9. In time's nick he was saved by a Serbian editor, a reserve colonel...
ROBERT H. ORCHARD...