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Aircraft manufacturers had already begun to bring the automobile industry into their business, on their own hook. Hudson is to make parts for Curtiss-Wright airplanes; Studebaker has been licensed to build Wright engines. Packard has a contract to make 9,000 Rolls-Royce engines for the U. S. and Great Britain. Douglas and United Aircraft's Vought-Sikorsky (airplane) division also look to automobile-body factories for airplane parts. Last week the biggest of all these contract links between the two industries was completed. Let to Henry Ford was a $122,000,000 contract to build Pratt & Whitney...
...Reynolds Packard, United Press manager in Italy and correspondent in the Ethiopian and Spanish wars, reported from the fighting that he personally saw Italian forces penetrate Greece at a number of points in some instance for "many miles"--and that he was convinced the Greeks had not entered Albania at any point. Italian operations were handicapped last week by rain and mud, Packard said, but now were advancing in force along the entire front...
Each speaker of the team will talk for approximately eight minutes on his given subject, and each subject will fit into the next so that the five topics will form a complete whole. The speakers, coached by Frederick C. Packard, Jr., associate professor of Public Speaking, will be prepared to answer questions...
Subsequent lectures in the Harvard radio series this month will be: November 12, "Harvard Poets on Record," by Professor Frederick C. Packard Jr.; November 19, on college athletics, by William J. Bingham, Director of Athletics: and November 26. "Are Executives Paid too Much?" by Professor John C. Baker, of the Harvard Business School...
...total represents a tremendous advance (Pratt & Whitney, for example, was turning out only 100,000 h.p. a month in early 1939). New shops to be completed early next year will up the joint capacity of Curtiss-Wright and Pratt & Whitney to a phenomenal 4,000 engines a month. Ford, Packard, Studebaker, other automakers should begin to produce aircraft engines late...