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... project is abreast or ahead of schedule. "Our machine tooling is ready," he pointed out. "Dies and stampings are completed. Paint and upholstery lines are nearly instal led. Stock piles are building up. Engines are merging with other completed production units of the car. Bodies and chassis, as you see, are moving on the actual production lines, blazing the way for early mass produc tion." He reported the company has a chance of obtaining the big surplus wartime steel plant in Cleveland, which will insure ample basic supplies for high Tucker production. Three bids have been submitted to the government for this great blast furnace facility. He said he has sufficient steel "lined up" for present production schedules of 125 cars by June. More basic materials, he said, will be needed to reach the goal of 120 cars an hour for which the plant is being tooled. Discussing reports on the Tucker engine and transmis sion, he said these units are 90 per cent com plete, but that neither will be shown publicly vintil both are in production. Seldom in publication history have impar tial news and financial writers reported so enthusiastically and favorably on a commer cial project. "Tucker Has Homey Stockholders' Meet ing" read the headline in the Chicago Daily News; "1,647 Stockholders (Count ...