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...cart at the next intersection and returned to Manila by jeep. As I write, I hear an occasional rending noise in the distance. I assume it is the opposing forces still clashing with the greatest possible violence...
...Chinese authorities coped with a new problem last week-"jeep girls," a slightly more commercial version of the U.S. bobbysoxer...
...Chungking the U.S. Army employs many English-speaking Chinese girls, mostly from Hongkong, Shanghai and Tientsin. They have been brought up under Western influences. They like to dance, date boys, kid around. But when they dated U.S. soldiers, Chungking confused them with the jeep girls who ply their trade with great zest and professional abandon...
...most important thing about an amphibious jeep or truck is that it should keep afloat; the next most important, that its ignition system should keep dry. Fortnight ago U.S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. was permitted to tell how the second requirement has been met in World War II. The electrical parts are painted with a compound known as PiB (protects, insulates batteries), which is brushed or sprayed over the spark plugs, battery terminals and exposed electrical parts. There it dries slowly to produce a highly insulating but flexible film, making the circuits impermeable by water...
...automobile makers, Willys-Overland is least worried about reconverting. Willys' chairman, shrewd Ward Murphey Canaday, will switch production to a slightly modified version of the wartime jeep. Canaday is enthusiastic about the market for jeeps on the 6 million U.S. farms. The export markets look good, too. Canaday has signed one contract with a South American importer for 5,000 postwar jeeps. He has letters from 6,000 U.S. servicemen who have fervently announced they want to become jeep distributors when they get home...