Word: harley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting services-ground and air-are restricted to their simple functions, training and battle. All this suits their commanders, Lieut. Generals Lesley James McNair of the Ground Forces and Henry Harley Arnold of the Air Forces. The Services of Supply has the rest, from M.P.'s to ordnance, from housekeeping to transportation to the vast load of Lend-Lease. And that suits S.O.S.'s new boss...
Died. Walter Davidson, 65, president and co-founder of Harley-Davidson Motor Co., motorcycle manufacturers; after an operation; in Milwaukee...
Fast-moving, hard-driving A. W. S. Herrington bought the truck division of near-bankrupt Marmon Motor Car in 1931, settled down in Indianapolis. A Motor Transport Corps captain in World War I, Herrington knows trucks and tanks inside & out. He once worked for Motorcycle Makers Harley-Davidson, spent seven years as transportation engineer with the Army and Marine Corps...
...Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Metro Goldwyn-Mayer) is such a pretentious resurrection of Robert Louis Stevenson's ghoulish classic that it might well serve as a final mausoleum for the bones of the ill-fated Harley Street medico and his test-tube twin...
Eliot House had a dinner "in hall" last sight to celebrate the appointment of Harley Granville-Barker as visiting lecturer. The guest, an Englishman, made a short speech after dinner during which he predicted a new Middle Ages in case of a British defeat, and emphasized that democracy is losing no ground in England. Questions were allowed after the talk, and discussion centered around the question of how democratic Britain...