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MEDIUM PRICE CLASS. Oldsmobile 88 Holiday De Luxe, 19.70 m.p.g., 50.80 t.m.p.g.; Nash Ambassador Special V8 Super, 20.71 m.p.g., 47.99 t.m.p.g.; Hudson Hornet Special V8 Super,20.48 m.p.g., 47.49 t.m.p.g...
...narrow margin, and bringing curious tales about the "fossils of the future." Rhino & Cures. The biggest of the threatened animals is the Indian rhinoceros, of which only a few hundred survive. A creature that only an animal man could love, it has the temper of a bald hornet, the odor of cattle-boat bilge water and the bodily build of a Sherman tank...
...altitude records for sea-(38,560 ft. in 1929) and landplanes (43,166 ft. in 1930); of a heart attack in his sleep. Annapolisman Soucek, member of a famed Navy flying team (brother Zeus is a retired lieutenant commander turned aircraft-industry executive), was air officer of the carrier Hornet when it launched the Doolittle B-25 raid on Tokyo. in 1942, later commanded Task Force 77 in Korean waters...
...Having smashed many of the biggest ships of the U.S. and British fleets and landed their forces at will around the southern seas, they toyed between plans to go for India, Australia or Hawaii. It was Doolittle's Tokyo raid, launched in April 1942 from the U.S. carrier Hornet, that clinched the sea lords' new course of conquest. They decided to turn east, to capture Midway Island (1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor) and use this outpost as an advance base for Japanese air patrols. As naval strategists they calculated that the attack would draw...
LOWER HUDSON PRICES will result from Hudson's merger with Nash into American Motors Corp. By doubling up with Nash on purchasing and production, Hudson has been able to cut prices an average $155 on its Wasp line, up to $204 on the more expensive Hornet models...