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...Ohio's biggest auto dealer, with a large stock interest in Willys-Overland...
...campaign in the Korean peninsula bore striking resemblance to the Duke of Wellington's "Peninsular Campaign" against Napoleon's armies in Spain. The Iron Duke, like Matthew Ridgway, was pitted against enemy armies of overwhelming numerical superiority, capable of getting steady overland reinforcements. Wellington's troops, like the Eighth Army, were supplied by overwhelming seapower. Wrote Wellington, describing his "war of maneuver": "If they advance against me, I shall retire before them, accepting battle if they give me a favorable opportunity, for the missile action of my lines is superior to the shock action of their columns...
Tactical Vehicles (e.g., trucks, jeeps, etc.): Reo Motors, Inc., $65.2 million; Studebaker Corp., $76.6 million; Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., $95.5 million; Diamond T Motor Car Co., $52.5 million; International Harvester Co., $139 million; Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., $188 million; Truck & Coach Division of General Motors, $144 million...
...Capitol Divisions) and to the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, which had completed an unopposed landing at Iwon, 80 miles up the east coast from Hamhung. Originally scheduled to come ashore with the Marines at Wonsan, the 7th Division had landed at Iwon to save itself an overland trip north. At the time of the landing, Major General Edward Almond, U.N. commander in northeastern Korea, had tersely described the objective of his columns as "the border." By week's end it looked as though their drive to the border might be delayed...
...year-round transportation. It begins in the southwest at the island naval base of Kodiak, encompasses the ice-free ports of Seward and Whittier, fans up along the 471-mile Alaska Railroad, and there hooks on to the Alaska (Alcan) Highway, last segment of the 2,350-mile overland route from...