Cocky, independent automaker Studebaker Corp. which was in receivership in 1933-35 last week had something it could really crow about: its 1942 munitions out put will hit $215,000,000, twelve times its total World War I arms production and double its biggest peacetime year. Main reason: the company's remarkable ability in mass-producing intricate, 8,000-part, 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclone engines for giant four-engined U.S. bombers. Studebaker turns them out in huge, sparkling, air-conditioned factories at South Bend, Ind., had speeded the job with time-killing machines like the 1 75-foot monster which finishes...
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