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...Army laid out another $69,000,000 contract for Allison engines. The Army thus raised its bet on an apparently underpowered engine (and planes designed for it) to $159,500,000. And the Army also had $62.448,000 out in orders for Rolls-Royce Merlins (to be built by Packard...
...industry expanded, but not enough. Soon outsiders were creeping in-with no better results. G. M. went painfully into chicken-feed production with its liquid-cooled Allison. Packard bravely took the $125,000,000 British Rolls-Royce order that Henry Ford turned down. In November, Ford himself, who had earlier talked of 1,000 planes a day, took a $122,000,000 order for Pratt & Whitney Double Wasps. His engineers went to Hartford to find out how to make them...
...Several days before their football game with Notre Dame, 16 varsity members of the University of Southern California team came down with flu. Also stricken were Head Coach Howard Jones and the team's doctor, Delos Packard Thurber. The Trojans lost...
...cooled, a lot of money is at stake, in addition to the ultimate excellence of U. S. pursuit planes. The Army has let contracts of $90,500,000 for Allison engines and airplanes to put them in-Curtiss, Lockheed, Bell-and has a stake of $62,448,000 in Packard Motor Co.'s project to build liquid-cooled 1,000-h.p. Rolls-Royces - round total...
...Stupendous Job." Henry Ford talked himself into the airplane business last May, with a grandiose announcement that he could build "1,000 airplanes a day." Just as abruptly he talked himself out in June, when he refused to accept the Rolls-Royce engine contract which Packard later took. What brought him back was the tremendous pressure on Pratt & Whitney to up its capacity, plus P. & W. executives' respect for the Ford organization, plus Bill Knudsen's quiet insistence that Ford Motor Co. had to find a place in U. S. defense...