Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Henry Ford talked about "1,000 planes a day" last spring, the U. S. quivered to attention. Mr. Ford now hopes to have a new aircraft engine factory ready by next fall, produce 4,500 engines by mid-1942. If Mr. Reuther had his way, Ford Motor Co. would probably not be building a new plant. Instead Ford would be turning unused space, men, machines in his own and other manufacturers' plants to aircraft production. So would all the other automakers, to manufacture aircraft and engine parts for which their facilities were best fitted. Everybody would...
...helmeted gargoyles was the Army's newest emblem: a black tank tread, superimposed on a tricolored triangle of yellow (for cavalry), scarlet (for field artillery) and blue (for infantry). For tanks are only the armored hearts of a modern, mechanized division; each has in addition a regiment of motorized (truck-borne) infantry, another of motor-drawn artillery, and a profusion of ex-cavalry officers...
...Pons's comings & goings, her decorations and honors. She is a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, holds Belgium's Order of the Crown, the Gold Medal of the City Paris, a certificate as honorary consul of Cannes, an honorary inspectorship in the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles. Three flowers, a South American race horse, a restaurant, a Boston & Maine locomotive and a New Jersey Central streamlined train have been named for her. Los Angeles and Norwalk, Conn. have celebrated Lily Pons days...
Abandoning his 33rd floor aerie (in Manhattan's New Yorker Hotel) as well as his customary winter costume of long underwear, red golf socks and high-laced shoes, genial, ghostly, 84-year-old Hermit-Inventor Nikola Tesla (Tesla induction motor, Tesla pump, Tesla transformer, some 700 other patents) indulged an old enthusiasm for prize fighters, went down to dine with a fellow Croat, Welterweight Champion Fritzie Zivic...
...hours after the Chrysler contract was signed, Hudson Motor also granted its 12,000 workers vacation bonuses. Two days later Briggs Manufacturing (automobile bodies) announced $40 bonuses and 2/ wage increases for 19,000 men. Other bonuses-of-the-fortnight: A & P stores, $1,500,000; International Shoe, $600,000; Glenn L. Martin aircraft, $500,000; Procter & Gamble, $500,000; Horn & Hardart (automats), $340,000; Royal Metal Manufacturing Co. of Chicago...