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Peter Macgowan '42 will be in charge of the Junior Ushers while E. Langdon Burwell '41 will assume the duties of Treasurer. Candidates for Ivy Orator will compete for the position on May 22, the winner being selected by Judges Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, Eliot L. Richardson '41, George H. Hanford '41. Thomas F. Donahue '41, and Robert James...
...committee of Judges, Eliot L. Richardson '41, George H. Hanford 41, Thomas F. Donahue '41, and Robert A. James '41 will record the speeches, judge them, and select the winner. Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '29, associate professor of Public Speaking will assist in making the final choice...
...engine purchases for pursuit airplanes is in liquid-cooled power plants of half the Napier Sabre's power. For General Motors' Allisons the Army has laid out $159,500,000, and it has contracted for $62,448,000 of Rolls-Royce Merlins to be built by Packard. While waiting for General Arnold to report, Air Corpsmen could find comfort in another fact: whatever was done about liquid-cooled engine buying, it would soon be getting a lot more power in a new batch of pursuit planes. Last week Republic Aircraft Corp. put the finishing flicks...
While these things happened, Packard went ahead tooling for its Rolls-Royce contract, expected to go into production by September. From its plant at Indianapolis, Allison was in smooth production (25 a day). General Motors had just adopted a new process for making Allison crankshafts 20-30% stronger than before. Still under test was Allison's new engine that may still match Britain's superpowered, engines: a 24-cylinder power plant (built in a W, not an H like the Napier), designed to equal the Sabre's power...
...production cut is not likely to affect the industry much. The motor companies have undertaken defense contracts which will take up any slack, may even tax their ability to find management and workmen (General Motors has $725,000,000 in defense contracts on its books, and some companies, like Packard, are already as busy on defense work as on cars). Workers are being switched into making airplane engines, tanks, bomber parts, guns and shells. It has been estimated that the industry would have to employ 150,000-200,000 new men to handle the defense orders...