Willow Run

Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307549372

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Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff Pdf

1944 Meggie Dillon’s life has been turned upside down by World War II. Her older brother Eddie enlisted and was shipped off to fight in Europe. And people say that anywhere else Grandpa would be turned in because he’s German, and people might think he’s a spy. Is it true? Could Grandpa be taken away? Meggie’s father has announced that they must help the war effort and move to Willow Run, Michigan, where he’ll work nights in a factory building important war planes that will help fight the enemy in Europe. Willow Run will be the greatest adventure ever, Meggie thinks. There she meets Patches and Harlan, other kids like her whose parents have come here to do their part in the war. And there she faces questions about courage, and what it takes to go into battle, like Eddie, and how to keep hope alive on the home front.

Author : Warren Benjamin Kidder
Publisher : K L F Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015031875605

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Willow Run by Warren Benjamin Kidder Pdf

Author : Marion Wilson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472752010

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The Story of Willow Run by Marion Wilson Pdf

The Story of Willow Run is a success story—the life history of a small community, the "Bomber City" that had sprung up in World War II. It tells what a group of returning veterans and their families did to make into a progressive, thriving settlement. Who are the people of Willow Run? What were their needs, their problems? How did they accept and meet the challenge of making a home town for themselves? Marion F. Wilson tells their story—a tribute to American pioneering courage. Today, Willow Run Village is growing into a permanent community, proud of its schools, its churches, playgrounds, shops, and homes—and, above all, its community spirit.

Author : Sarah Jo Peterson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226025421

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Planning the Home Front by Sarah Jo Peterson Pdf

Before Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7 to be a “date which will live in infamy”; before American soldiers landed on D-Day; before the B-17s, B-24s, and B-29s roared over Europe and Asia, there was Willow Run. Located twenty-five miles west of Detroit, the bomber plant at Willow Run and the community that grew up around it attracted tens of thousands of workers from across the United States during World War II. Together, they helped build the nation’s “Arsenal of Democracy,” but Willow Run also became the site of repeated political conflicts over how to build suburbia while mobilizing for total war. In Planning the Home Front, Sarah Jo Peterson offers readers a portrait of the American people—industrialists and labor leaders, federal officials and municipal leaders, social reformers, industrial workers, and their families—that lays bare the foundations of community, the high costs of racism, and the tangled process of negotiation between New Deal visionaries and wartime planners. By tying the history of suburbanization to that of the home front, Peterson uncovers how the United States planned and built industrial regions in the pursuit of war, setting the stage for the suburban explosion that would change the American landscape when the war was won.

Author : Michaela Adam
Publisher : Willow Run Stables
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1737344491

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Willow Run Stables by Michaela Adam Pdf

Born and raised in the city, Michaela always harbored an enthusiasm for farm life and horses, but zero knowledge of how cisterns operate, or how to successfully employ pasture management on farm land. Join her as she shares her adventure of farmification: acquiring a Boone County, Kentucky horse farm, and attempting to operate the hobby farm with no tractor and no truck, but with plenty of coaching from local friends, and a forgiving sense of humor.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Labor supply
ISBN : UOM:39015023536975

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War Mobilization by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1480 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Air bases
ISBN : UCBK:C084289556

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Investigation of the National Defense Program by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program Pdf

Part 41, focuses on Navy fuel purchase contracts for Saudi Arabian oil and businesses' use of institutional advertising for tax exemptions during and after the war.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legal and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Aeronautics and state
ISBN : MINN:31951P004924023

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Federal Role in Aviation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legal and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1496 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Aeronautics and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110703456

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Federal Role in Aviation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations Pdf

Author : David Lanier Lewis
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814318924

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The Public Image of Henry Ford by David Lanier Lewis Pdf

Skillful journalism and meticulous scholarship are combined in the full-bodied portrait of that enigmatic folk hero, Henry Ford, and of the company he built from scratch. Writing with verve and objectivity, David Lewis focuses on the fame, popularity, and influence of America's most unconventional businessman and traces the history of public relations and advertising within Ford Motor Company and the automobile industry.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116500893

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Debbie Mason
Publisher : Forever
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538716984

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Falling in Love on Willow Creek by Debbie Mason Pdf

Fall in love with thelatest Highland Falls romance about a single mom-to-be's surprise delivery and the undercover FBI agent who rescues her and her heart in the small town of Highland Falls. Single mom-to-be Sadie Gray will do anything to find her younger brother before the law catches up with him. Even if it means returning home to the small town of Highland Falls with a baby due any moment. But when that moment comes sooner than expected, and Sadie finds herself stranded on the top of a mountain—in labor--she couldn’t be more grateful for the park ranger who finds her and helps deliver her daughter safely. Soon they’ve formed a tight friendship, and while he may be hinting at more, Sadie isn’t planning to stick around after she finds her brother. FBI agent Chase Roberts wasn’t looking for love when he agreed to go undercover as a park ranger to find an on-the-run informant. But he can’t help being drawn to beautiful, warm-hearted Sadie and her sweet baby daughter. He’s always longed to put down roots and start a family. But how can he hope to keep Sadie’s trust when she finds out that his job is to arrest the brother she’s been looking for? Includes the bonus novella A Wedding on Honeysuckle Ridge for the first time in print!

Author : Marianne K. Martin
Publisher : Bywater Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612940809

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The Liberators of Willow Run by Marianne K. Martin Pdf

During World War II, Allied victory rested on the wings of America's Liberator, the B-24 bomber. The only way to build them fast enough was to bring women into the work force. Join Audrey and Ruth as their search for freedom leads them to risk everything to rescue an abused young girl, somehow finding love and redemption along the way.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Real Estate and Military Construction
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1392 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Military bases, American
ISBN : UCAL:B5107069

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Exchange of Surplus Agricultural Commodities by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Real Estate and Military Construction Pdf

Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385729932

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Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff Pdf

This “brilliantly told” (New York Times) Newbery Honor Book gives readers a sense of what it was like to be on the American home front while our soldiers were away fighting in World War II. As in past years, Lily will spend the summer in Rockaway, in her family’s summer house by the Atlantic Ocean. But this summer of 1944, World War II has changed everyone’s life. Lily’s best friend, Margaret, has moved to a wartime factory town, and, much worse, Lily’s father is going overseas to the war. There’s no one Lily’s age in Rockaway until the arrival of Albert, a refugee from Hungary with a secret sewn into his coat. Albert has lost most of his family in the war; he’s been through things Lily can’t imagine. But soon they form a special friendship. Now Lily and Albert have secrets to share: They both have told lies, and Lily has told one that may cost Albert his life.