Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's new Tank Destroyer Command. The General went from a course in dairy husbandry at Texas A. & M. into border fighting and World War I, emerged with a D.S.C., Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with Gold Star (twice). No martinet, he picked the site of Camp Hood not only for its mud and its sweaty climate, but because he liked Cow House Creek which runs through it, providing seven fine swimming holes where parboiled tankers can cool...
...swing through practically all the specialized training camps of the West. He spent three days at the glider Air Academy at Twentynine Palms -going up with the students, getting the dope on equipment, organization, training. He jolted around with the Army's new tank destroyer corps at Camp Hood in Killeen, Texas, where they had to move a cemetery to get the site they wanted. In the California desert at Indio (very hot in the shade and no shade) he saw our new desert warfare battalions being whipped into shape, heard General Patton applying the lessons our side...
...Symphonies." Other summer openings followed in quick succession: Manhattan's Stadium concerts, an open-air series by the Philharmonic-Symphony; the Cleveland Orchestra's roofed-over summer series, in the huge, airy Public Auditorium; Philadelphia's warm-weather nights of symphonic music in willow-fringed Robin Hood Dell. Others were still several weeks ahead: the Chicago Symphony's six-week season in rustic Ravinia on Chicago's North Shore; Chicago's free Grant Park concerts (for which the Chicago Federation of Musicians is putting up $48,000); Detroit's Belle Isle nights...
...constant weight on the front wheels makes a smooth ride, he said, while the absence of a hood would bring the road too close to the driver, tire his eyes. "If the air-cooled engine is generally adopted," said cautious Bob Gregorie, "It will be compact and could be placed anywhere...
...functionally perfect shape, the symbol of progress." Abandoning the egg for some-thing closer to a motorboat, French-born Designer Loewy would fashion his car of light, unpainted alloys, plastics, nonreflecting glass. With a liquid-cooled engine in the rear, he would leave the present-day hood as a concession to popular taste, a storage space for tires, battery, air-conditioner. The undercarriage would be faired-in (streamlined). Doors and windows would operate by push button. It is possible that present auto manufacturers would not have the post-war car all to themselves. Autos may be a logical changeover...