Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressman John K. Kennedy '40 (R-Mass.), who served in the Pacific theater during World War II on motor torpedo boats...
...Kuder test consists of a series of triple-answer questions listing activities varying in scope from writing a symphony to tinkering with an electric motor, and attempts to analyze preferences in respect to specific facets of a job or profession...
...Ford Motor Co.'s sales manager John R. Davis announced more bad news for the second-hand dealers: late this year Ford will start producing 1948 models that will show "the greatest change since the introduction of the Model A twenty years ago." And, he added, they would be cheaper than present models...
...people who attended the opening of the first postwar National Motor Boat Show in Manhattan last week hoped to be dazzled by sleek new dreamboats. But what they saw amid the pillars of the Grand Central Palace looked very much like the models they had seen there in 1940, at the last show. Those who looked sharp, however, could find some improvements and a few new models...
...never-never world of the funnies, this was the news of the year-comparable to Henry Ford quitting his motor company and setting up shop in competition across the street. It was a move involving three of the biggest U.S. press lords: the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick (who lost Caniff), and Marshall Field and William Randolph Hearst, who gained him. For Caniff himself, it meant a guarantee of $520,000 for his next five years' work, and a stiff challenge-to outdo the best of his past...