What's With Willow Run?

For the first time, the War Production Board conceded last week that all was not well with Henry Ford's famed Willow Run bomber plant. The 975-acre plant was scheduled to start rolling out bombers last summer, was popularly supposed to produce a bomber an hour eventually. But WPB now admitted: "There have been many disappointments in connection with the Willow Run operation, and the plant, even now, is far from peak production."

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