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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Albert Jesse Browning, 48, vice president of the Ford Motor Co., wartime director of purchases for the U.S. Army; of a heart ailment; in Detroit...
...Flivver. Ford Motor Co., which had upped the price of its 1949 Ford by $85 to $125, last week ordered its dealers to figure their markups (25%) on the old prices (thus cutting their profit by an average $25-per-car). The grey market was already placing a far different price structure on the new Ford. On "used" car lots, new models were selling at $3,000 (the Detroit-delivered price ranges from...
...magazine Tekhnika Molodezhy (Technology for Youth) tossed off a few more sparks. Russians, reiterated Tekhnika, had invented the electric arc, the electric light, the electric motor and high-tension power transmissions. And how had the capitalist U.S. utilized these Russian gifts to mankind? By inventing the electric chair, which, "lately, has been used more & more to do away with revolutionary workers condemned to death with the assistance of dirty police provocation...
...Bell XS-1, with its rocket motor and two-minute fuel supply, is merely a flying laboratory, but the F-86A is a practical military aircraft (see BUSINESS). One of the secrets of its speed is probably its swept-back wings. When the plane itself is flying faster than sound, the air passes over the back-slanted wing at less than sonic speed, and so makes less trouble...
Steel. Although steel production reached 7,564,626 net tons in May, a new peacetime record, cutbacks resulting from the coal strike were still felt by motor-makers. General Motors closed down its Michigan operations and laid off 200,000 men for a week in order to accumulate enough steel for continuous production. The Ford Motor Co. closed down...