Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both men voluntarily retired (at $6,000 a year) 18 months ago, Kimmel to work for Manhattan consulting engineers doing Navy jobs, Short to head the traffic department of Ford Motor Co.'s Dallas plant. Many officers and civilians, convinced that the two have already shouldered censure that should have been visited widely upon both services, hope the cases are being allowed to die quietly...
Lieut. Henry Ford II, 25, was released from active service with the Navy to "take up important duties" at Ford Motor Co., following the death of his father, its president, Edsel Ford...
...four-engined transport crashed from motor failure on a flight from India, to China. There had been just time to radio the nearest Allied base, an American outpost 100 miles away, then crew and passengers bailed out. All but two of the 21 landed safely. Among them: William L. Stanton, of the U.S. Office of Economic Warfare; John Davies, second secretary of the American Embassy at Chungking; Eric Sevareid, CBS news commentator; several Chinese colonels...
Transportation: Trucks and other motor transport were lagging. "Certain design problems" were still holding up large-scale armored-car deliveries...
...whom his prewar acquaintances at home would have hardly recognized. At times he was shy, quiet. He never bragged, in public, of his own division; he never slighted the others. Once, when the 1st Armored Division was late on one of his flanks, Allen said: "I guess they had motor trouble...