Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wal let, 23, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's comic-strip character be loved by millions; and Nina Clock, 22, his boyhood sweetheart; both for the first time; in Gasoline Alley...
General Motors' Allison division at Indianapolis announced that it was all ready to produce an engine in the 3,000-h.p. class. Unlike the air-cooled engine builders, who range their cylinders around a crankcase like the spokes of a wheel, Allison turns out liquid-cooled (Prestone) engines with cylinders in banks. The familiar Allison is a V-type, like the famed Rolls-Royce or the twelve-cylinder engine of a Packard motor...
...Allison went from "V" to "W" for more power. Its new engine has four banks of six cylinders each, is twice as big as the "V" engine which powers the P-38 Lightning, some P-51 Mustangs, the P39 Airacobra and some P-40 Warhawks...
Died. John Maudgridge Snowden Allison, 55, eloquently lecturing Yale historian (Thiers and the French Monarchy), Princetonian ('10); after a brief illness; in New Haven...
...example was the twin-engined Lockheed Lightning (P-38), one of the world's most versatile military aircraft. The big thing about the improved P-38 is that its Allison engines have been boosted 30%, past 1,500 h.p. (by a better turbosupercharger system). Among the results...