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...Chicago's least-known citizens is short, silver-haired Charles Arthur Tilt, 65, who lives in a swanky Gold Coast apartment, is an expert yachtsman, golfer and skeetshooter, is the owner of a cannon-cracker temper. He is also founder, mainspring and president of smart Diamond T Motor Car Co., which last week estimated its 1942 sales 125% over last year to a record $100,000,000. Diamond T had just announced nine months' profits up 45% to $1,063,000-quite a contrast to the 34% drop in the combined profits of competitors, Mack Trucks and Yellow...
...Chicago, Chrysler Corp. was completing an airplane motor factory bigger than even famed Willow Run. (see p. 92). Three coastlines were now a-clatter with shipyards. (Henry J. Kaiser, who had never built a ship until 20 months ago, now has built 320.) And from Michigan, center of U.S. mass production, came another significant announcement: the Detroit area, which produced only $36 million worth of materiel before Pearl Harbor, had produced $1,100 million since...
...pastor in a Salem, Ore. church announced just before the sermon that a car had been left outside with its motor running. "Here is an opportunity for the owner to demonstrate his patriotism and conserve gasoline," he observed pleasantly, and read the license number. Governor Charles Arthur Sprague hustled out and turned off his motor...
...Germany, which had 30 radio stations before the war, has picked up 98 stations in occupied territories (twelve in Russia). Last spring Germany controlled 16,000,000 radio receivers, required schoolteachers to halt lessons long enough to receive daily news bulletins. (Adolf Hitler: "Without motor lorries, without aeroplanes and without loudspeakers we should not have conquered Germany...
Inside the contracting area the battle became a melee. Distracted Axis troops faced in all directions at once. Panzer divisions dug in, using their tanks as pillboxes. Across the steppes galloped Cossacks in their black capes. Around gutted villages roared Russian tanks, swift motor-borne Siberian infantry...