Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--Eight Jap destroyers trying to blast their way through the American blockade with reinforcements and supplies for the starving enemy garrison on Guadalcanal were attacked by U.S. motor torpedo boats which hit one vessel and scored three possible hits on two others, the Navy said today...
Technicolor movies of the U. S. Mountain Troops will be shown tomorrow night at the Cadet Armory in Boston at 8:15 o'clock. "Ski Patrol" shows action shots of the ace Army schussers in training at Camp Hale, Colorado, and this showing is sponsored by the First Motor Squadron of the State Guard. Tickets can be obtained at the Coop or the door...
...Chicago's least-known citizens is short, silver-haired Charles Arthur Tilt, 65, who lives in a swanky Gold Coast apartment, is an expert yachtsman, golfer and skeetshooter, is the owner of a cannon-cracker temper. He is also founder, mainspring and president of smart Diamond T Motor Car Co., which last week estimated its 1942 sales 125% over last year to a record $100,000,000. Diamond T had just announced nine months' profits up 45% to $1,063,000-quite a contrast to the 34% drop in the combined profits of competitors, Mack Trucks and Yellow...
...Beginnings. For these startling gains all credit goes to Art Tilt, who has a seventh sense for what truckmen will buy, has manufactured motor vehicles longer than anyone else except Henry Ford. Art started Diamond T (Diamond for quality; T for Tilt) 38 years ago in the rear of a one-story Chicago garage. Brash and bossy, Art ignored most truckmaker traditions, did whatever he wanted to. It worked. Before World War I Diamond T had a national reputation; then its military trucks gave it an international reputation...
...enough orders to run full blast for more than a year, has specialized in three main military types: 1) Diamond T-designed six-by-sixes (six cylinders, six driving wheels) used for gun crew carriers, artillery tractors, etc.; 2) hefty half-tracks (built cooperatively with Autocar and White Motor); 3) tank hauler and recovery units, sensational monsters which handle big tanks like toys, have 2½-ft.-wide fenders and an engine weighing more than an ordinary 1½-ton truck...