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...General was not even yet telling all. Said he: "In two minutes I could start a controversy the like of which you have never seen, but I'm not going to do it. ... I have given every report, every memorandum and every scrap of paper to the historians. Let them write about it 25 years from...
...hyper-competitive automen will clear their plants of Government-owned equipment and materials in their own way, argue with the Government later on how it should have been done. Thus the two days of foofaraw simply boiled down to the fact that the automen sensibly wanted to scrap now the tangle of red tape which may hold up reconversion. But they have no intention of letting it stand in the way of 1) making jobs; 2) producing cars. As Rausch summed up: "When we start turning out cars the rest of the boys will be right with...
...example, Studebaker Corp. "predetermined" one contract, found that $1,061,000 worth of materials would be valueless except as scrap when the contract is ended. Studebaker offered to buy the materials for $15,590. Come actual cancellation, Studebaker will simply send in its check, move the materials aside so as to lose no time shifting to auto production. Estimated time saved: 30 days...
...till Dday, many steel mills kept scrap inventories high, enough to last from 60 to go days. Since then, they have been buying cautiously. Now their inventories are down to some 45 days' supply at the present rate of operation...
...Make high heeled shoes and evening slippers for women, patent leather shoes and sandals for men, and use scrap leather bows as decorations...