Word: inded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms production and double its biggest peacetime year. Main reason: the company's remarkable ability in mass-producing intricate, 8,000-part, 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclone engines for giant four-engined U.S. bombers. Studebaker turns them out in huge, sparkling, air-conditioned factories at South Bend, Ind., had speeded the job with time-killing machines like the 1 75-foot monster which finishes a cylinder head in 49 seconds v. 300 hours the old way. The go-year-old onetime wagonmakers also produce thousands of pug-nosed military trucks, auto & truck parts, plus some hush-hush military goods...
Junk. In Middletown, Ind., when Carl Clinger's handsome new auto stalled on a railroad track, he got his old car, used it to push the new one off the track, got stuck halfway across, jumped just in time to watch a train smack both of them into smithereens. In Los Angeles, when the Homer Cliffords' auto stalled on a railroad track, confident Mrs. Clifford kept her seat while her husband tried to push the car off the track before a train arrived. She survived the impact...
...Guilford, Ind., Carl Buchanan took out his old Army uniform, found a letter in it he was supposed to have mailed for a friend in 1917. Now, as Postmaster of Guilford, he mailed...
...staff included Tipton Blish, Yale graduate (1927) and onetime man about Manhattan, Nathan Kaplan from the Bloomington (Ind.) Evening World, Photographer Edward Andros, who used to run a portrait studio in Mishawaka, Ind., and Private Grover Page Jr., son of the Louisville Courier-Journal's famed cartoonist. Public Relations Lieut. Peyton Hoge conceived the paper's slant and the division commander, Major General H. L. C. Jones., tolerated...
Four days before the Navy announced the sinking of the Wasp, the small-town Plymouth (Ind.) Pilot scooped the world by casually breaking the news in a front-page interview with a home-town survivor of the lost carrier. The sailor was abruptly whisked away by Naval authorities. Elderly Pilot Editor Samuel E. Boys got a blistering Navy rebuke. Possibly Sam Boys's slip expedited Navy's official communiqué admitting the loss of the Wasp. But the hopeful impression got around that Navy's relatively fresh report about the Wasp (coming only 41 days after...