Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Chrysler Corp. was completing an airplane motor factory bigger than even famed Willow Run. (see p. 92). Three coastlines were now a-clatter with shipyards. (Henry J. Kaiser, who had never built a ship until 20 months ago, now has built 320.) And from Michigan, center of U.S. mass production, came another significant announcement: the Detroit area, which produced only $36 million worth of materiel before Pearl Harbor, had produced $1,100 million since...
...pastor in a Salem, Ore. church announced just before the sermon that a car had been left outside with its motor running. "Here is an opportunity for the owner to demonstrate his patriotism and conserve gasoline," he observed pleasantly, and read the license number. Governor Charles Arthur Sprague hustled out and turned off his motor...
...Germany, which had 30 radio stations before the war, has picked up 98 stations in occupied territories (twelve in Russia). Last spring Germany controlled 16,000,000 radio receivers, required schoolteachers to halt lessons long enough to receive daily news bulletins. (Adolf Hitler: "Without motor lorries, without aeroplanes and without loudspeakers we should not have conquered Germany...
Inside the contracting area the battle became a melee. Distracted Axis troops faced in all directions at once. Panzer divisions dug in, using their tanks as pillboxes. Across the steppes galloped Cossacks in their black capes. Around gutted villages roared Russian tanks, swift motor-borne Siberian infantry...
Open to all students over 18, even those in 4F, the First Motor Squadron of the Massachusetts State Guard will drill once a week during the winter, according to Elliot Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau...