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Charlie Wilson was transferred to Bridgeport. He rode into Bridgeport in 1923 in a green Standard sedan. He rode out, 14 years later, in a sleek 8-cylinder Cadillac. Between those two rides he made his reputation as a production man. When he arrived, a certain cable-wrapping operation took 24 hours. After he had tinkered with the process, it took exactly 58 seconds...
...bowling alley's polished lanes were unscratched. No patient had slept in the sleek new 50-bed hospital, fitted with X-rays and incubators. A mess hall (capacity: 450) had finer equipment than any hotel in Montana, but nothing and nobody to serve. A dozen boys and girls shouted down empty corridors of a school-house built for 200. Lloyd Badgley's store had piles of canned goods, a soda fountain, gleaming meat refrigeration, no customers...
...Engineering Forum of Philadelphia had its sleek, 1,000-lb. helicopter (one of more than 20 such projects in the aircraft industry) really flying (see cut). Its pilot: Frank N. Piasecki, president...
Through the dark, night-hung waters off Rendova Island in the Solomons crept a sleek Navy PT boat, hoping for a crack at Japanese shipping. Suddenly shore batteries discovered the craft and opened...
...Grumman F4F. Major John Smith (19 victories; Congressional Medal) came in a Corsair. Navy Lieut. Stanley Vejtasa (ten victories; Navy Cross with two stars) dropped down in an F6F. Major Vincent ("Squeak") Burnett, champion stunt flyer and specialist in B-26 bombers, dusted in with one of the sleek Marauders...