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...Canyon, would be a lean and squinty, older version of Terry; a fellow with an easy, insolent, Gary Cooperish grace that marked a breed of plainsmen, and airplanesmen. Canyon knew the world and its airlanes-and its women-as his granddaddy would have known the way stations on the Overland Trail. So he went into business on a shoestring as Horizons, Unlimited, and took for his trademark an old Navajo double-eagle design (see cover). His first customer would be a tough one: a wolverine of Wall Street, slinky Copper Calhoon...
Based on fact, The Overlanders is a hard-riding yarn about a drover who refused to shoot 1,000 head of cattle, decided to "overland" them across 1,600 miles of forbidding mountains and desert. The storytelling, acting and incidental romancing are not quite up to Hollywood Standards. But the jagged, weirdly beautiful landscapes are novel and interesting...
...long as steel held the line, most automakers, biggest steel users, cautiously did the same, except for General Motors, Crosley and Willys-Overland. But they jittered at the soaring prices of some of their other raw materials (the increase in glycerin and other oils alone would add up to $5 to the price of cars). Like Ford (see Autos), most were still losing money. In hopes that the price rises would ease some of the shortages, they optimistically upped schedules to 94,000 cars and trucks for the week, hoped increased production would make up for the higher costs...
...Willys-Overland postwar hopeful is a low-slung, short (104-in. wheel base), but ingeniously designed two-door six-cylinder sedan. It seats three in a front seat, two in the narrow rear seat. Other features: independent suspension of front wheels (no axle), and universal joints in the rear axle designed to take much of the bump out of bumps. Proposed price: around...
...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...