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...Detroit, where only two months ago G.M. had been building tanks, the corporation rolled out a glistening new Cadillac. It was the first car G.M.'s production lines have turned out since February 1942. It looked much the same as the 1942 model, although G.M. bragged that its sleek body contained 63 improvements...
...precisely 3 p.m., on Ottawa's Parliament Hill, a sleek maroon phaeton rolled up the curving drive. Several thousand sweltering spectators patted their hands in gentle applause. The car stopped at the great center doorway of the Parliament Building and out stepped Alexander Frederick Augustus William Alfred George Cambridge, first Earl of Athlone, and his wife, the Princess Alice. Athlone. for five years the representative in Canada of his nephew George VI, was on his way to perform for the last time the most impressive of a Canadian Governor General's functions-the formal opening of a session...
...workers to its new 550 m.p.h. jet fighter, the Shooting Star. Though cut back, Lockheed will still turn out 40 a month, biggest production of any Army fighter. On top of its backlog in military orders, they have a whopping $150,000,000 in civilian orders for their shark-sleek transport, the Constellation, and other commercial planes. And they still have an ace up their sleeve: the super-transport, the Constitution, which reportedly will carry 157 passengers...
...frontier. That territory, Italian Somaliland, is now British-occupied- and Britain has its own ideas about the ownership of the strategic Red Sea littoral. The same day, the British Government made a formal presentation to Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah: a sleek new Rolls-Royce limousine. Territorial claims could be discussed later...
Since they formed a producing team in 1940, lank, solemn, ex-pressagent William Hoy Pine, 49, and sleek, peppery, ex-pressagent William Carroll Thomas, 41, have whipped up 30 musicals and melodramas for the nation's double bills. None has come close to an Oscar, but all have been good business...