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...Announced by Ford Motor Co. (which refused to build Rolls-Royce aircraft engines if the British were to get any) was an agreement with United Aircraft Corp. to build 4,000 Pratt & Whitney air-cooled engines...
...talk for battalion): 424 horses carrying troopers armed with Garand rifles and automatic pistols, 48 pack horses loaded with machine and anti-tank guns. After them in a cloud of blue smoke snorted the second squadron: 68 armored scout cars, no motorcycles, trucks, rolling kitchens, ambulances. Spectators found the motor squadron old stuff. More interested in the horse squadron, they watched it trot up to 58 truck-trailer combinations, unsaddle, walk its mounts up inclined tail gates, tie them inside. Within 10½ minutes horses were loaded eight to a trailer, troopers were aboard, the train pulled...
First big Nazi air attack began on Aug. 8 near Dover. Before daybreak a flotilla of Nazi motor torpedo boats darted into a Channel convoy of 20 small coastal ships, sank three. The convoy continued westward down the Channel. About 9 a.m., 50 Junkers dive bombers, with Messerschmitt fighters swarming above them, swooped out of the morning sun. Some of the ships were towing barrage balloons which the Germans had to shoot down before they could dive-bomb. Anti-aircraft fire and squadrons of angry British Spitfires and Hurricanes hurtled up from the British coast. The sky spun crazily with...
...near which the great industrial centres grew - Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester. Around these cities lies "black country," shrouded in smoke, lurid at night with the red belch of blast furnaces, so ugly and acrid that a tough people grew tougher to endure it. Rail roads and narrow motor highways, with varied surfacing, tie the Midlands cities together...
...doing a direct-mail campaign for another agency's client is enough to send shivers up and down that agency's spine. For Philadelphia's austere, venerable N. W. Ayer & Son, the shivers materialized last week. From Ayer, which handles the rest of Ford Motor Co.'s national advertising, (McCann-Erickson has the branch advertising) Lou Maxon took the $500,000-or-more-a-year Lincoln-Zephyr account. He had done a direct-mail job for Ford in 1935, had been gunning for the advertising ever since...