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About all AVCO did not buy from Powel Crosley Jr. was his Cincinnati Reds baseball team (National League), and rights to the bantam, two-cylinder, $350 car on which Crosley took a flier before the war. He has hopes of redesigning it as a more successful four-cylinder car, and has a quota for auto production in the reconversion period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: In Time of War Prepare . . . | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Lieut. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., late Navy flier son of the ex-Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism and courage" as a bomber pilot in his last flight over Europe last August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

Golden Corn. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, an R.C.A.F. flier complained of corns, was examined by a medical officer who found $2,000 cached in the sole of his boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...weeks ago he took off, with New York City's Republican Representative Joseph C. Baldwin, for a quick but intensive look at Britain and North Africa. A short, heavy-set man, he wanted to get into World War II as a flier, but was told he was more valuable in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Methodists & Businessmen | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...second half of the bill is a little gem involving an American flier (male), a Russian officer (female), love (obviously), assorted spies, Gestapo agents, and platitudes, all seasoned with a dash of international good-will. It was hard to get down and harder to keep down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/5/1943 | See Source »

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