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...Australia last week meant just that. Australians were stripped for action and fighting mad. The gingerbread was gone. War profits were cut, all business and industry under strict control, the personal actions and property of every man and woman subject to Government orders. "There are three means of service," said Curtin: "in the fighting forces, in the labor forces, in the essential industries...
...front: 2¼ inches; rear: if inches); 2) to lessen skid danger, braking pressure is now distributed not evenly but 60% to the front wheels, 40% to the rear; 3) the exhaust system has been "streamlined." The Ford front end has been redesigned around a small, rectangular grille, and gingerbread held to a pleasing minimum...
...priced Zephyrs feature a two-step, boxlike front end, rectangular fenders. The Customs, available in "formal or semiformal" body styles, sacrifice no dignity for the sake of streamlining. Swankiest of all are the long, low-swung Continentals, crown jewel of Ford engineering. Squarish rear decks and little gingerbread give them a European air. Lincoln horsepower...
...been carried to new extremes, approaches "tear-dropping" in some cars. But many car buyers will look twice to make sure they are not at last year's show. Most radiator grilles, hoods, fenders and tops are little changed. Externally, the biggest change is a superabundance of "gingerbread." The new cars glitter with chromium, nickel, even golden bronze...
...cile Chaminade. A composer who does not mind being called the American Chaminade is a plump little blonde woman, nearing 50, who is known on concert programs as Mana-Zucca. Last week Mana-Zucca finished her 1,000th composition, a children's musical play called The Gingerbread House. Then, instead of letting well enough alone, she wrote her 1,100st, a song entitled Music I Heard With...