Word: midget
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They call it all sorts of names: "jeep," "beep," "peep," "bug," "chigger."* But by any name this homeliest item in the U.S. Army's rolling stock, the 2,200-lb. midget combat car, has, after a year and a half of service, been recognized as an unexpected and unique success...
...jeep positively will not fly, but there is a widespread notion in the Army that it can do anything else. Last week in Washington there was a rumor that the midget was going to be equipped with 75-mm. guns. Since the jeep's practical load limit is 800 lb., it could hardly tote a 75, which weighs 3,900. But it is steady as a mule under the recoil of a 37-mm. antitank gun. If, under stress, the jeep should turn over, it is a simple matter for a few soldiers to set it right side...
...minded citizen stands in the prop wash of many a muddled controversy. He realizes that the U. S. aircraft industry has grown in three years from a midget employing fewer than the knit underwear trade to the focal point of Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" which today holds Britain's life in the balance. But he is confused by fragments of ill-ordered, semi-secretive information and misinformation fired at him haphazardly by the press, labor, Government, business. Out of this confusion this week came an encyclopedic attempt to synthesize the whole problem: the all-aviation March issue...
...Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, gave a Bronx cheer to unofficial Army explanations that Ford was best qualified to make the engines and that the engines were needed. The Defense Commission's ClOman Sidney Hillman put in his protest when Ford got another order: $2,000,000 worth of midget combat trucks to replace the Army's motorcycles...
...that Captain Murphy actually does so. A six foot seven inch giant, Murphy has the advantage of a very long reach, which, coupled with an aggressive style of play, makes him one of the most formidable members of the squad. With the graduation of Bill Croach (a 77-inch midget), Murphy now stands uncontested in the height department...