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...Americans, regardless of our attitude in the past." He was told that his statement was "not enough." that in order to regain his commission he would have to take back everything he had said in the past. Lindbergh refused, went to work as a civilian consultant to the Ford Motor Co. and United Aircraft, helped in the design of the Navy's Corsair. In 1944 he went to the Pacific as a civilian technician and in the course of six months flew some 50 missions and was unofficially credited with shooting down one Japanese plane...
...Look at Their flag!" Sporting jasmine garlands and his inevitable red rosebud, Nehru stumped Travancore for six days on foot, by Cadillac and in motor launches, making 25 speeches a day. He met fishermen in thatched huts, cardamom pickers in the spice groves, farmers in their rice fields. Altogether he drew 3,000,000 to his scheduled Congess Party meetings. Everywhere he kept up a bitter tirade against India's Communists. "Look at their flag!" he cried. "They have copied the Russian flag. Very extraordinary . . . My mind fails to grasp why that flag should be imported into India...
Manhattan's annual nine-day International Motor Sports Show (92 foreign and U.S. cars) reported sales of nearly $2,000,000, almost double 1953 sales...
With that kind of leeway, micro-midget fans have scrounged engines from a wild assortment of places: lawnmower motors, outboards, motor scooters, units from generating and refrigerator plants, and even bilge-pump engines salvaged from Navy landing craft. Average weight of car and engine...
There was reason for such optimism. The slump in used-car demand, which had pulled down new-car sales, had reversed itself. And new-car sales, after a slow start early last month, were also picking up. Ford Motor Co. reported that its January sales of 140,633 cars and trucks were highest in history for the month, up 16% from a year...