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...Giant motor busses and trailers have been built in the U.S. with a deadweight saving of four to five tons through magnesium alloys...
...General Tojo heard that parts of Tokyo were threatened with a fish shortage. To the fish market he rode. He fingered two suspicious specimens and inquired: "Are these still edible?" Then the Premier asked the fishmongers the real reason for the shortage. Lack of oil for Japan's motor-powered fishing boats, he was told. "Oil!" exclaimed General Tojo. "Why not get up earlier and work harder...
...plant opened last week-a little $20,000,000 job, consisting of 15 enormous buildings completed in seven months on a 140-acre tract at Centerline (on Detroit's outskirts). Managed by Hudson Motor Car Co., it will turn out everything in the small ordnance line, from gun-mount parts to 20-mm. Oerlikon antiaircraft machine guns...
...last-minute rush for 1941 model cars meant lush earnings for automakers. General Motors, announcing that defense items were 24.7% of its third-quarter sales (first quarter: 8.7%) showed profits of $43,022,000 v. $15,621,000 a year ago. Little Hudson Motor Car-which last week turned out its first 20-mm. anti-aircraft gun for the Navy-lifted profits from...
...jeep, a stubby, bouncy crossbreed between the half-ton command car and the motor tricycle, is as ugly as a bull pup. It has a wheelbase of only 80 in. (Ford V8: 114 in.) and a fourwheel drive that provides enormous traction for its 42-h.p. engine. It has no trouble pulling light field pieces, can skitter along a road at 60 m.p.h. Designed to replace motorcycles and sidecars for reconnaissance work, it can go anywhere a cycle can, and a lot of places a cycle can't. It can be used as a troop carrier (three men easily...