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Identifier
20027538
Description
W. M. Harrison, president of Crown Machine and Tool Company, was awakened on the night after Pearl Harbor by an urgent telephone call from the War Department in Washington, D. C. directing him to throw a guard around his small defense plant to protect it against sabotage. Thinking of the few old lathes and the sheet iron building then constituting the infant plant, Harrison objected: "There's nothing there anybody would want to damage." But he donned his clothes and went to stand guard himself, along with two policemen he found already at the scene. The plant expanded, erected buildings, and turned into two plants, producing shells by the thousands for the Army and Navy, as well as precision tools and instruments to enable other factories to get into shell production. Now it's turning out numerous peacetime products from plastics and metals and has plans for many others. Mr. Harrison is sitting behind a desk wearing a suit. There is paperwork and eyeglasses on the desk. Star-Telegram Evening Edition December 8, 1945
Archival Date
1945-12-07
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6-392
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Negatives, Black & White
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JPG
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Paperwork
Names
Harrison, W. M.
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