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...plane's top-turret gunner landed just 20 yards apart. They buried their parachutes under the snow. Chappuis guessed that they were about 160 miles behind the German lines, and just north of the Po River. The day was foggy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Specialist | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Esmerelda II is no ordinary car. True, she was spawned of a punch press and a Detroit turret lathe sometime in the early '30s, just like millions of others. But there the resemblance ends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Esmerelda, a Car with Spirit, Carries On | 7/25/1947 | See Source »

Ciardi's personal poetry corner during most of the war was the turret of a Saipan-based...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ciardi Delivers Third Morris Gray Lecture | 3/12/1947 | See Source »

...voice rose, "the right honorable gentleman did not wake up one morning and say, 'Oh, let us get another Viceroy!' It must have some purpose or reason behind it." He scowled across at Attlee, then slowly wheeled round like a battleship's gun turret and returned to his seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: In Four Generations | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...metal Skysedan will have a top speed of more than 160 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 140. Its 165-horsepower Continental engine will carry it 620 miles on 40 gallons of gas. Special features: a "turret-top" cabin roof for better visibility, and windshield wipers, first ever installed on a light plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cub's Big Brother | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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