National Affairs: Spirit of Lockheed-Vega

Short, blond, athletic-looking, 21-year-old Burton Griffin works by night in the stock room of Vega's Burbank (Calif.) plant, goes to bed with the dawn. One morning last week young Griffin couldn't sleep; a wild idea chased through his mind. Finally it drove him to put on his clothes, hustle off to the plant to tell his boss. Soon 1,500 questioned employes of Lockheed-Vega voted to put it in practice. The idea: "I got to thinkin' about Christmas and about all those bombers we're making for the British. . . . And I got this...

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