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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unspeakable design . . . horrible example . . . palm-leaf bauble . . . witless bit of trash...
...Navy reported that it had won out in a great engineering adventure which has made U.S. warships, pound for pound, the most efficient craft on the seven seas. Its new high-pressure, high-temperature steam turbine has succeeded beyond its rosiest hopes. The new design...
...Nonetheless, two enterprising Navy engineers, Rear Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson (then engineering chief, now head of the Navy's Office of Procurement and Material) and Rear Admiral Harold Gardiner Bowen, braved a fierce controversy and pushed it through. Ship Architects Gibbs & Cox (TIME, Sept. 28) were commissioned to design the new machinery...
Berlin propagandists suggested that even this modest design has withered. Now, they said, the Wehrmacht has adopted a solely defensive strategy in Russia, (which might include local, limited offensives, but no large-scale blow at the Red Army). They also indicated that the Allied menace in the south influenced this decision...
...gone on advertising, unabashed by the FTC order, which they answered last week. They denied that they had violated any FTC provisions in advertising, stated that the Willys ads had been submitted to the Army before publication and insisted that Willys "in cooperation . . . with the Quartermaster Corps originated the design for the jeep and did not copy it from . . . any other manufacturer." Hearings by FTC will be held later. But Joe Frazer and Willys regard the matter as academic-the Willys-designed jeep is the only one being produced in the U.S. today...