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...stops along the way, flying boats and land planes cover the 2,000 miles in two days. Planes cut the distance to doctors in a country short of skilled specialists. A hundred lively aero-clubs, sponsored by the Government, have brought planes to many parts of Brazil before the motorcar; some 600 airfields have been built...
...Valencia was no bomber, but the crew was willing. From a 40-gallon oil drum stuffed with 386 sticks of dynamite, parts of a sewing machine, a motorcar differential and two packets of incendiary bullets, they fashioned their bomb, eventually squeezed it into their crate...
Major Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 44, thrice-married motorcar heir, was busy last week with a full program of marital madcapping. After days of long-distance objections (Stamford, Conn, to Denver) to the proposed marriage of his son, Corporal H. E. Dodge III to Margery Gehman, redheaded daughter of a University of Buffalo professor, he announced that he would attend as best man, arrived in Denver 48 hours late, having missed plane connections. Sitting on her lap, he gave his blessing to his new daughter-in-law, told reporters he was in love with 2nd Lieut. Cara Tinsley, an Army...
...heads of the nation's motorcar industry filed hopefully into a meeting called in Detroit last week by representatives of the War Manpower Commission. Now, they thought, they would at last get from a Government agency the specifications they needed to tackle one of the major obstacles to reconversion. After a four-hour meeting they emerged gratefully clutching a prize: the Government was going to allow them to devote up to 1 % of their personnel to planning passenger-car production...
...very sorry to leave this motorcar behind...