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...brothers celebrating over beer in the kitchen, "Commando" and family transferred temporarily to the William Penn. There followed parades, gifts, interminable speeches by civic officials, a night appearance in a local park with 10,000 fans pushing through police lines, a tour of the city in an open Packard. From the sidelines the hero could hear shrieking girls awarding the ultimate in bobbysock tributes: "He's nicer than Frankie...
...flat car carried his Rolls-Royce and Packard staff cars, ready to be rolled off for trips to camps away from the railheads. The train was in constant radio communication with the General's permanent headquarters; dispatch riders pursued him with secret messages...
...wing. More than a year ago they tried stepping the plane up with a more powerful engine, and passed the tip on to the U.S. Air Forces, which took up the same experiment. The present P-51B is ail-American except for the design of its 1,500-h.p. Packard-built Rolls-Royce Merlin engine (same type used in the latest Spitfires). It chews the air with a four-bladed propeller, has a two-speed, two-stage supercharger which gives it speed and climb upstairs and down...
...Churchill's." President Roosevelt drove about Cairo in a special Packard, bulletproofed with sheets of glass that weighed 90 lb. He called it "my county jail." His driver was Master Sergeant Harold A. Crotta, of Butler, N.J., who proudly showed correspondents a little pile of cigar ash on the running board. Said Sergeant Crotta: "Yep. It's Churchill...
...when items like automobiles can again be produced in limited quantities, the reconversion problem must be faced head on. Sample question, already hissing around Detroit: Must Packard go on making Rolls-Royce airplane engines while Chevrolet-or Ford or Dodge or Nash-begins making cars...