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...boom. D-day had touched off a buying ripple, which, had turned into a tidal wave under the fair, strong wind of cheering war news. The Street seemed confident that the end of the war was in sight. The brisk buying of "peace" stocks, notably those of I.T. & T., Packard, and all the war-busy auto companies, turned into a scramble. Most riproaring of all was Willys-Overland, which got a new boss fortnight ago, ex-Fordman Charles E. Sorensen (TIME, June 19). Day after day Willys charged ahead, helped along by a rumor: a new postwar combine of small...
...sash brushed against the uniforms of battle-soiled pressmen. His white-silk skullcap shone among battered steel helmets. Benignly he overlooked the breach of Vatican neutrality implicit in the side arms carried by a few army men. He smiled when he saw U.P.'s hefty Eleanor ("Pee Bee") Packard bulging in army slacks. "I haven't anything else to wear," said Correspondent Packard...
...Unlike the air-cooled engine builders, who range their cylinders around a crankcase like the spokes of a wheel, Allison turns out liquid-cooled (Prestone) engines with cylinders in banks. The familiar Allison is a V-type, like the famed Rolls-Royce or the twelve-cylinder engine of a Packard motor...
...rival, she took charge of his gang, whose activities included bank robbery, kidnapping, blackmail, extortion. Soon she muscled in on the Rosario race track, cleaned up by fixing the races. With her head triggerman, Arturo Placeres, Agata liked to speed through the streets of Rosario in a black Packard sedan with impressive (but faked) number plates...
...Ford's definition. In 13 plants, some 3,300 F.A.A. members continued on strike for union recognition. War production slumped, in some cases 50%, as workers floundered about without supervision. While the National Labor Relations Board and the War Labor Board debated on how they should treat F.A.A., Packard shut down and sent its 39,000 workers home. With foremen missing, Army inspectors feared faulty workmanship and refused to accept any more Packard motors (Rolls-Royce motors for Mustang fighters. Mosquito bombers). In stubborn anguish the potent Automotive Council for War Production (which includes all auto-makers), warning...