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...Neck. In Fruita, Colo., an illustrative marvel took place. A farmer chopped off the head of a rooster named Mike. He missed Mike's jugular vein and a lump of tissue at the top of his neck that controlled Mike's motor impulses...
...knows where OPA will set the ceiling price for Detroit's new cars. But last week, OPA said flatly what prices are above the ceiling. It turned down a request of the Ford Motor Co., the first to apply for a 10-to-15% increase in 1942 car prices. The OPA suggested that Ford modify its increase, but did not say how much. This put Ford's round-faced sales manager, John Raymond Davis, on the hottest competitive spot in the industry...
...also probably America's best-known priest, with an audience of millions for his Sunday preaching on NBC's Catholic Hour and a fan mail of 3,000 to 6,000 letters a Sunday. Among his other noted proselytes: the late Heywood Broun, politico Horace A. Mann, motor dynast Henry Ford...
This flying flivver (which is actually flying) has no ailerons, elevators or rudder. A movable wing, which can be tipped in any direction by a single steering-wheel, takes over the work of all three. A motor behind the passenger compartment spins a pusher propeller that sticks out where the rudder would normally be. The front wheels are steerable, as in an automobile. The plane's sponsors, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., admit that the loose-jointed wing is still in the experimental stage. But they hope that the perfected version will make light airplanes as easy to manage...
...University of Wyoming with a law degree, then joined the FBI. Put in charge of the Detroit office shortly before the war, he made a notable record (he broke up two Nazi spy rings, kept sabotage in war plants at 0). He left the FBI to join the Ford Motor Co. two years ago as Bennett's assistant...