Word: torpedoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only Natural. As to why a miller was making irons, there were several answers. One was that, as a result of its wartime production of $29 million worth of gunsights, torpedo directors and other military gadgets, General Mills found itself with a new million-dollar plant that needed something to keep it going...
Tucker had been quietly minding its own business. It had its hands full trying to get into production on a bullet-shaped car, the Tucker Torpedo in Chicago's surplus Dodge plant. Only six weeks ago, Tucker Corp. had signed a "firm" lease purchase agreement with the War Assets Administration for the plant...
...Tucker Torpedo, a completely new car designed by a completely new company (the Tucker Corp.), looks like a backward bullet. It has a 150-h.p., six-cylinder aircraft-type engine in the rear, a fuel-injection system eliminating the carburetor, a new type of drive shaft and transmission. It is expected to weigh some 800 lbs. less than the average car, cost from...
Into the seething French political situation, General Charles de Gaulle dropped a sizzling torpedo last week...
Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, British royal princesses, took a leaf from their sailor father's logbook. With 30 other girls of the Windsor Sea Rangers Troop, they went down to the sea for a few days in a motor torpedo boat. Elizabeth, 20, lit the galley fire, peeled potatoes, made breakfast. Margaret Rose, 15, scrubbed the deck, polished up the brass...