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...Germany Yamashita had been excited by the Luftwaffe's function as heavy artillery mounted on hawks' wings. He had acquired licenses to build Stukas and light attack bombers. He had also got the rights for the 800-horsepower B.M.W.-132 radial motor, and for certain precision instruments made by Patin and Telefunken...
...Frances Dodge Johnson, youngest (27) daughter of the late Motor Magnate John F. Dodge, won a court award of a $10,000,000 trust fund, after a two-year family fight. Father Dodge's will provided that $10 million go to her when she reached 25, but her halfbrother, John Duval Dodge, sued to break the will when he found it left him only $150 a month. Members of the family gave him a settlement...
...Bataan, studied with savage satisfaction the Navy's detailed announcement of the raid on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. And the great U.S. industrial machine hummed ever faster in its war of production. In Baltimore a test pilot took up the first bomber powered by a Ford-built motor. Americans, unbeatable at making things, were beginning to make the things they needed. The nation grimly heeded WPBoss Donald M. Nelson's statement that the "golden months" were gone, but that "ten silver months" were left...
Victory was no longer the question. The opposite choice, death, would have meant the useless slaughter of civilians. And so General Percival made the hard, the humiliating choice. He went, as directed, to a Ford Motor plant at the foot of Bukit Timah, a hill where, earlier that day, there had been bloody fighting. There, at 7 p.m., after some palaver, he signed away large pieces of the land, the power and the pride of the British Empire...
...hide much. In London, Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton gave figures showing that Vichy's collaboration with Germany had been military, as well as economic and political. He said that in two months Vichy had sent the German forces in Libya cars, lorries, 5,500 tons of motor fuel...