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Engineering. In Pontiac, Mich., after years of promoting, the fire department finally got an appropriation for a $17,000 fire engine, then found it was four feet too long for the station...
Somewhere in England 22-year-old Corporal Ora A. Foster of suburban Pontiac, Mich, thumbed a ride in an outsize limousine, chatted in the back seat for some 14 miles with two pleasant ladies while a British colonel sat up front with the chauffeur. "I more or less did the talking," Foster reported later. Before he got out one of the ladies remarked, "I guess you don't know who I am, do you?" "You've got me beat," said Foster, and she told him: Queen Mary. Corporal Foster summed up classically: "You could have knocked me down...
Because the C.I.O. clerks won a contract, the A.F. of L. threw picket lines around Pontiac's 200 independent groceries. The teamsters, their colleagues, then refused to make deliveries across the line. The stores had to close...
...retaliation, the C.I.O. clerks put pickets around war plants. At Pontiac...
Most famed of all amateur astronomers is Robert Raynolds McMath, 51, who spends as little time as possible as chairman of Detroit's Motors Metal Manufacturing Co., as much as possible in the elaborate McMath-Hulbert Observatory near Pontiac. Fifteen years ago, Engineer McMath built a small 4-inch telescope for his father, became so fascinated at his first view of Jupiter's satellites and the moon's mountains that he has been designing astronomical instruments ever since. He has made the world's best motion pictures of solar phenomena, and his films are now used...