Word: overland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...searchers would first search the Atlantic seaboard north of Vinland, then keep on going; hence their route ran up the Atlantic coast into Hudson Bay, down Hudson Bay to the Nelson River, Lake Winnipeg and the Red River into Minnesota's lake country. There, while looking for an overland route back to Vinland, the party was attacked by Indians. The Kensington runes purport to tell the story...
...point in the mid-Pacific route may well give Pan Am the advantage. What it mentioned scarcely at all is that the Northwest Passage will cut the flying distance from New York to the Orient by 1,000 miles. Northwest also will do most of its flying overland, where reassuring emergency bases can be built...
...only talkative contestant in the race to produce a cheaper car was James D. Mooney, bouncing, bustling president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. His plans: a six-cylinder model weighing only 2,500 Ibs. (smallest Ford weighs 3,011 Ibs.) with standard wheel base, wide seats, and "gasoline economy which will amaze the driving public." The 1947 Willys will be in production early next year, will sell for less than any of the present models of Plymouth, Ford, or Chevrolet...
Civic Improvement. In Overland, Mo., the Lions Club gave the community six green trash cans so good-looking that citizens mailed letters in them...
...Ford's production chief in 1944, he flopped down on a Florida beach to forget his troubles. Last week he was back on a Florida beach again and he had more troubles. This time he had been squeezed out of his job as president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., which he had held for nearly two years. He was still production boss, but no longer president...