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...torpedo shook C.M.U. from stem to stern, although C.M.U. was not yet sunk and Harry Bridges and comrades were not yet licked. Bridges was on his way to Honolulu to negotiate a longshoremen's contract. But in the Manhattan headquarters of N.M.U., Curran's Communist pals, now his bitter, open enemies, scurried around like enraged locusts, shrilling propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Torpedo Named Joe | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Betty Crocker Branches Out | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Clonk | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Sleek and Low Down | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Into the seething French political situation, General Charles de Gaulle dropped a sizzling torpedo last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Anarchy or Dictatorship | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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