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...LSTs and assault transports. Reinforced by the newly arrived 3rd Infantry Division, they were slated to make another amphibious landing-this time at Wonsan on Korea's east coast. But on Oct. 10, just before what was to have been Dday, troops of the R.O.K. I Corps, driving overland, captured Wonsan ahead of schedule. The war had moved so fast that the big knockout assault scheduled to be commanded by Major General Edward M. Almond was not needed...
...Just Money. At 45, with more money than he had ever expected to have, Chrysler tried to retire. But he kept on getting up at 6 a.m. anyway, until one day Mrs. Chrysler said, "I wish you would go to work." He did: for Willys-Overland at $1,000,000 a year. After that, nothing but a car of his own could satisfy him. He had a finished prototype ready by 1923: the first six-cylinder Chrysler. When the New York auto show of 1924 refused to give him display space (the Chrysler was not in production), he hired...
MacArthur had intended to fly into Fukuoka and there board his ship. The sudden change of plans because of a typhoon gave the general his first long ride overland in Japan since his arrival more than five years ago. One of the strangest facts about this great and strange man is that he has seen almost nothing of the country under his rule. His travels have been largely limited to occasional drives between Tokyo and the Haneda airbase eight miles away...
KENNETH J. GULP Overland Park, Kans...
...Willys-Overland was handed a $22 million order for 8,350 jeeps, its biggest in five years. To Reo Motors went a contract to make 3,900 "Eager-Beaver" heavy-duty trucks for the Army at a cost of $24 million. But since both orders had been on the books before war's outbreak, and no new ones had been placed, automakers thought there was not yet any prospect of a cutback in civilian auto production; cars rolled off assembly lines last week at a record clip of 70 a minute...