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...Kenneth Spicer Wherry liked to call himself a "political fundamentalist." He could reduce the shadings of any political controversy into a black & white conflict between free enterprise and socialism, or economy and waste. With stubborn affability, he spent nine years in the Senate defending his own simplified brand of Midwestern Republicanism against Democrats and internationalist Republicans...
...stop advertising that it had created or designed the "jeep." Said FTC: although Willys-Overland "made an outstanding contribution in its powerful engine as well as in other features of the vehicle," the credit belonged jointly to four companies-Willys-Overland, American Bantam Car Co., Ford Motor Co., Spicer Manufacturing Co. (now Dana Corp.)-and the Army...
...R.C.A.F. announced that a survey party, flying low over the vast, frigid Foxe Basin in the Arctic Ocean, had rediscovered the Spicer Islands, first found by a Massachusetts whaler in 1897 and then "lost." Flight Lieut. J. F. Drake of Vancouver said that runways could be constructed on two of the marshy islands but that they would be ". . . hazardous operational bases...
Elsewhere in the nation the labor situation was relatively calm, but uneasy. Strikes involving 6,000 men at Toledo's Spicer Manufacturing Corp., 8,000 at Mobile's Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., 7,900 at Mack Manufacturing Corp. plants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, threatened no immediate hardship to the armed forces. Detroit was quiet...
...This week Mr. Prince became one of G.E.'s five new vice presidents. The others: Walter R. G. Baker, Chester H. Lang, Elmer D. Spicer, Harry A. Winne...