Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Names & Numbers. No matter how she picks them, the Arden horses are doing all right this summer. War Jeep, a three-year-old colt, won the Jamaica Handicap and the Skokie Handicap. War Date, a three-year-old filly, won the Princess Doreen Stakes and the Modesty Handicap. Beaugay, which some think may be the best two-year-old filly now racing, won the Fashion Stakes, the Polly Drummond Stakes and the Arlington Lassie Stakes-for a total take...
Redeployment. Willys-Overland took the wraps off its civilian jeep last week. It looked just like the G.I.'s car-of -all-work...
...farmer's car-of -all-trades, the new jeep can pull a plow, harrow or load of hay; by means of a power take-off at the rear it can run a saw, threshing machine, or drill post holes. Slicked up, with top, side curtains, and comfortable seats, it can carry farmer & family to town. Willys expects to make 20,000 civilian jeeps this year, expects to sell them in the neighborhood...
Louis P. Lochner, 58-year-old dean of A.P. newsmen in Germany, got a major bumping and minor injuries when a jeep he was riding in Berlin hit a Russian truck...
...chrome trimmings and leather upholstery, missing from domestic models) due in the U.S. within two weeks. Another 15 are en route to Argentina. Austi-Motor Co., Ltd. has been able to get its postwar jump on U.S. automakers because it really never stopped Austin production: the Austin-made British jeep, a utility truck, was built on the same chassis as the civilian models. Austin expects to turn out 8,000 cars by year's end, expects to send the U.S. market about 30% of its output. To do this as well as export to other countries, Britons will...