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...Henry Ford celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary. It was also Mrs. Ford's 77th birthday. Mr. Ford spiced his anniversary week with a motor-company promotion (to an executive vice-presidency: his grandson, 26-year-old Henry Ford II) and a personal repudiation (of demagogic Gerald L. K. Smith, who had publicly declared that his brand of nationalism was like Ford's). Said potent Ford Spokesman Harry H. Bennett: "I want to state definitely for Mr. Ford, Charles A. Lindbergh, and myself, if and when Mr. Smith ever attempts to include us with his supporters, nothing is farther...
...which many had failed; most attempts had simply placed an ordinary truck on pontoons, with dampening results. OSRD assigned the ticklish part of the design, not to a truck maker, but to a firm of yacht designers, Sparkman & Stephens. They were to produce a watertight hull; General Motors, Yellow Trucks, the truck chassis and motor...
Minister Howe announced that Canada will immediately start production of a four-motor transport plane "that is considered probably the best plane of the next five years...
...Miami Beach, Charlie Sorensen called reporters to his winter home. Broad-shouldered, tanned, and looking fit from long afternoons on the sunny beach, he' issued a statement: "I am resigning from the Ford Motor Company after 39 years of continuous service. . . . I am compelled to take a much-needed rest...
...this speed. Plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead. ... For a short cut across a river ... the Amphibian is at home on the water. . . . Navigation lights are for cruising on a Venetian night. The four-wheel drive shifts to propellers. . . . The air-cooled motor in the rear operates air conditioning and heating." But dream-car talk usually starts production-minded auto men to shattering their glass-topped desks. They have patiently explained that the first postwar cars will be 1942 models, that dream cars may not come until five or ten years later. But designers, unperturbed...