Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Howard A. Fisher, 40, youngest of the seven motor-wealthy Fisher brothers ("Body by Fisher"); in Detroit. Frederic John, eldest brother and founder of Fisher Body Co., died last July...
...fleet of 77-foot shallow-draft mosquito boats maneuvering off the Canal, slamming over the water at So m.p.h., armed with 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns and bearing in their powerful little bodies a pack of torpedoes. No submarine cares to surface in an area where the little motor torpedo boats operate on the alert, because a PT can run down any craft afloat, and is 100% effective at the close ranges in which it operates...
This war work not only makes use of their recently idle plant & equipment, not only gives them valuable manufacturing experience, not only puts the bankrupt back in business, not only means profits and dividends. It also means that after the war the motor industry will not consist of three huge successful companies and a handful of independents struggling against odds. All the signs point to a motor industry in which the Big Three will have to face the competition of a vigorous brood of independents, wise in know-how and better founded financially than at any time in a decade...
...Hudson Motor Car's naval ordnance plant advertised in the Detroit papers for "A1 toolmakers-age limits 45 to 98 years." Hudson is glad it did: at week's end scores of alert, experienced, comparatively young men had signed up. With these men at work, the company expects an immediate boost in production, a cut in training costs. Said the plant personnel boss: "Hell, we'll take them up to 100 years old if we can get them...
...things which the world will see at the end of World War II is a new face on the U.S. automobile industry. This fact was double-checked last week when a Federal judge ended the year-old trusteeship of mercurial Hupp Motor Car Corp. Hupp has paid all delinquent and current taxes, has cutaits RFC loan 30% to $550,000, will pay all creditors $1 on the $1. Even common shareholders will not be wiped out. They can swap 100 old shares...