Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transport which had flown nonstop from the U.S. They were met by Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and "Beedle" Smith, Eisenhower's crack chief of staff. Marshall and Eisenhower were solemn as they shook hands. They did not, of course, tell correspondents what they would confer about. One obvious guess: winter on the western front...
...previously incorporated in Delaware.) The companies, each of which has 1,000 shares of no par common stock, declared their purpose to design, manufacture, sell, repair and deal in airplanes, automobiles and "any & all automotive products." As usual, the Fishers kept their actual plans to themselves. Detroit's guess: the Fisher plans are still nebulous, and formation of the companies at this time is merely to protect the Fisher name. But it was the first move of the Fishers to back up their promise to jump into the auto industry...
...heavy U.S. typhus season was just beginning last week, and the best guess was that 1944 would break all records. The mild U.S. variety of the disease (fever, rash, aches, prostration) was in creasing in Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and North and South Carolina, the total of 3,091 cases being 600 ahead of the same period last year. Last year's total: 4,533. (Some experts thought the real figure would be nearer 45,000 if doctors did not often diagnose the disease as measles, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pneumonia...
...scheduled. When the Board members finally decide-not before April 1945-they may settle once & for all two bitterly contested issues: 1) how many competitors will be authorized to invade Juan Terry Trippe's heartland; 2) whether U.S. shipping companies may engage in air operations. Best guess: that Trippe's Pan Am will be hounded by plenty of competitors armed with CAB certificates, but that ship operators will be anchored to their oceans unless Congress amends the Civil Aeronautics...
...Navy plans to reconvert the French liner Normandie (now the U.S.S. Lafayette) into a military vessel were abandoned last spring. She is now lying idle in an unnamed U.S. port. Best guess: the hulk will be turned back to the French after the war, possibly to be rebuilt as a peacetime luxury liner...