Word: amphibians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brisk business even in 1930. The partners bought one plane which had dived into a lake until only its tail was visible, for $450. They fixed it up and sold it for $20,000. They also made aluminum trailers, and finally landed their first Navy contract for two amphibian floats...
Short-Order Duck. Such are U.S. scientists' short-order wonders, often telescoping into a few months developments which would normally take five years of research from idea to finished product. Perhaps the best example of how Dr. Bush's group works was its famed amphibian truck, the "Duck." The problem: to produce a 2½-ton truck (based on an amphibian jeep previously designed by OSRD) which could run on land and water and do heavy duty in beachhead operations. It was a job at which many had failed; most attempts had simply placed an ordinary truck...
OSRD experts make frequent scientific trips to war areas to examine the value of their weapons in action. Once models are approved, Army and Navy experts take over and production contracts are let out. Ford, for example, has been turning out OSRD amphibian jeeps, while the Yellow Truck Division of General Motors produces the two-and-a-half ton amphibian truck...
...free-lance artist Ray Russell (see cut) who described the features: "Drive across Texas at 100 miles an hour . . . the tail fin to line her up at this speed. Plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead. ... For a short cut across a river ... the Amphibian is at home on the water. . . . Navigation lights are for cruising on a Venetian night. The four-wheel drive shifts to propellers. . . . The air-cooled motor in the rear operates air conditioning and heating." But dream-car talk usually starts production-minded auto men to shattering their glass-topped desks. They...
...Appian Way. Powerful Allied blows hit the German flanks. A British amphibian force struck north of the Volturno's mouth, from the Tyrrhenian Sea. German artillery lay in wait. But that did not stop the Tommies. From American-type, bow-opening craft they landed, dug in. Offshore, the British destroyers Laforey and Lookout and The Netherlands gunboat Flores shelled the German defenses. The action was fierce, costly. But the bridgehead...