Word: packards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Laurence B. Packard, professor of History at Amherst College, as visiting lecturer on History; Ph.D...
...Packard employe had nine traffic and 14 plant accidents in five years. The foreman found him a hothead who liked to ram drivers he saw violating traffic regulations, a fast worker with excess time for practical jokes (which often backfired). Switched to a responsible maintenance position, his traffic and plant accident scores dropped abruptly...
Bewildered or not, the U.S. was also working. A symbol of its working attitude was Robert Price (see cut), a lathe operator for Allis-Chalmers, who rushed to the factory in his full dress and topper from a New Year's party. In a huge Packard factory in Detroit, making parts for Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engines, one good union man, tuxedo-clad, ran his machine through the dawn of the New Year...
...With such a ceiling, the P-40F can fight handily at around 25,000 feet. For its newest fighter Curtiss-Wright changed engines, from the liquid-cooled, U.S.-designed Allison (now 1,150 h.p.) to liquid-cooled, British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin (1,300 h.p.), manufactured by Packard...
...million women had been registered, but only 575,463 interviewed, for war work. Parents had reclaimed 190,000 evacuated children. Fire watching was a nationwide must, but in some areas appeals for exemption ranged up to 90%. Air Marshal Portal traded his Humber for a big, black Packard...