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...Mound Road. Of the 79,000 trucks which the Army is getting from Chrysler, 55,000 have been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit was a white shirt, bow tie, suspenders, gray trousers, and a long cigar...
...several army girls in uniform, wearing boots, dark-blue skirts and the army blouse. They were as far forward as advanced divisional headquarters. . . . One was a medical, one was a telegraphist, another was a motor driver, another was a clerk with an air force unit...
...spending money in Manhattan nightclubs to trucking freight and cracking down on labor agitators in his huge Terminal System Inc. of New York City, which controls among other things some 4,500 New York taxis. Firm friends, bitter enemies, a tidy fortune and fame as No. 1 expert in motor transport-all these he attained in a hurry...
Sharp-looking, energetic as a motor, he was the first British munitions buyer to reach the U.S. in 1914. became, at 34, president and managing director of Canadian Industries, Ltd. (explosives, fertilizers, paint, plastics, industrial chemicals -Canada's Du Pont). Now he had become, as Viscount Halifax said last week, ''the linchpin of the vast organization built up on this side to cooperate with the U.S. Administration in all vital matters of production and supply...
...Dayton's McCook Field with his turbo in 1918, he met the traditional experience of all inventors: the "glassy eye," as he recalls, of skeptical industrialists and Army brass hats. He took them to the top of Pike's Peak, where a 350-h.p. Liberty motor gave only 230 h.p. in the thin air at 14,000 feet. When Moss cut in his supercharger, the motor roared away...