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...months developments which would normally take five years of research from idea to finished product. Perhaps the best example of how Dr. Bush's group works was its famed amphibian truck, the "Duck." The problem: to produce a 2½-ton truck (based on an amphibian jeep previously designed by OSRD) which could run on land and water and do heavy duty in beachhead operations. It was a job at which many had failed; most attempts had simply placed an ordinary truck on pontoons, with dampening results. OSRD assigned the ticklish part of the design, not to a truck...
...Four Jills and a Jeep" with Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, Mitzi Mayfair, John Harvey, Dick Haymes, and Jimmy Dorsey is the film being shown this weekend for the Naval Training Schools at the Music Hall. The story is based upon the entertainment tour of the four girls overseas at various camps in North Africa and England. Time schedule: Friday at 1800, Saturday and Sunday at 1800 and 2030 for the Naval Training Schools. The staff of the schools is invited to a special showing Friday at 2030. Films are not continuous...
Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, handsome, debonair Allied chief for Southeast Asia, slapped in the left eye by a stalk of bamboo while on a jeep tour of the Burma front, was treated for a minor face...
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Persia's handsome, 24-year-old Shah (his Queen is the beauteous Egyptian Princess Fawzia, sister of Egypt's King Farouk) was presented with a jeep by Major General Donald Hilary Connolly, U.S. Commander in the Persian Gulf area...
...surgeons limited themselves to the infected, jeep-riding cases, vied in thinking up ways to cut healing time. One method, the closed technique: stitch the wound up tight to make the edges heal directly together. Dr. Buie does not approve of the closed technique, gives statistics to show that infected cysts recur in about a quarter of the people so treated...