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...boys have been playing at Fort Dix every night. For dances at the Officers' Club they were glad to pocket what they would once have considered "black" money-$1.43 apiece. On their tour, by special permission of the Second Army Corps Command, they are part of U.S. Motor Camp Shows, sponsored by the Citizens Committee for the Army and Navy...
...plane stall in Utah. That night another flew into the ground in Idaho. Less than a week later another boy, with ice on his wings, fell in Ohio. Next day an engine failed over Long Island Sound: one drowned, two injured. At Cheyenne two died when a spitting motor sent a plane into a spin after the takeoff. Another flier broke his neck in an Ohio snowstorm. Engine failure killed a pilot in a Daytona Beach takeoff. Eight days later another plane went into a spin at Cheyenne. Bad weather crashed a flier in Iowa; a pilot, lost...
...week, 40 fledgling pursuit pilots from the advanced training school at Kelly Field (Texas) were trying their P-40 wings. At week's end, there were 39: fog-trapped Lieut. Robert E. Hetrick of Dimondale, Mich, tried to nose into a Long Island potato patch, overshot. Apparently his motor failed when he tried to recover, and he died in the crash...
...Henderson wanted a showdown with OPM over who was really boss of civilian supply. Henderson thinks that he is, and that OPM is trying to muscle in. OPM, whose priorities powers are the No. 1 weapon for regulating distribution, thinks that he is merely its adviser. After Knudsen told motor-makers early this month that materials shortages would cut heavily into their 1942 production (TIME, July 14), OPM and its automobile industry committee sat down to work out details of the reduction themselves. They and the industry expected the cut would amount to at least 50% but they named...
Married. Benson Ford, 22, son of Edsel Ford; and Edith McNaughton, 21, daughter of a retired vice president of the Cadillac Motor Car Co.; in Christ Chapel (Episcopal), Detroit...