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...coming off the production line is the company's XR-4. By fall this will be replaced by a later, heavier-load-carrying model, the XR5 Powered by a 450-h.p. Pratt & Whitney motor, the XR5 carries a pilot and passenger in tandem, flies faster than 110 miles an hour, has a range of some 400 miles...
Most Frenchmen went about their business pretty much as usual. But organized partisans stirred and struck. Many towns and villages of central and southern France flew the Tricolor. The core of unrest lay in the region around Vichy; there, by Nazi decree, all civilian motor and bicycle traffic came to a halt...
...last year, Ford has lopped off many of his top executives. As always, he has thus helped to staff his competitors with his men and spread Ford's closely guarded production secrets throughout the motor world. Biggest beneficiary in point of numbers by last week was Nash-Kelvinator; motormen call it the "Ford alumni club...
Beyond Rome the three main highways leading north were clogged with German motor equipment. Alexander's tactical air force tore savagely into them with guns and bombs. In the hills and fields, German foot soldiers backed northward, fighting stubbornly while the main bodies sped away from trouble. Allied units pressed closely. At one point they lost contact entirely with the retreating enemy, closed up fast to regain...
...Pulled down a side street and started again. This was a nice quiet street without snipers or machine-gun nests. After we were there for awhile an old lady and four men came up. There we were in the middle of the street, motor cut, shooting away...