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They generally ride on top of the pilot's compartment, belly down, head into the wind with their little fingers spread out over the windshield so that they won't be blown off. Of course, as we are operating a transport line, they behave themselves and don't pull any of the funny stuff their European cousins use to annoy pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...Packard's president. On May 2 he startled all Detroit, broke the last chunks of labor-management ice with a joint banquet for 800 company officials, union leaders and Army-Navy brass hats. Since then it has been easy. Packard employes wear little "Work to Win" badges,* paste windshield stickers on their cars. In the rambling Packard plants, huge 15-ft. red, white & blue billboards blazon new worker-composed slogans each week, twin scoreboards tally each department's efficiency and production. At plant entrances toy soldiers march across miniature battlefields to show how each division's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Production in Detroit | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Food. In Dover, Ohio, a goat chewed the $5 Federal stamp off Levi Weaver's windshield. In Nahunta, Ga., a schoolteacher's horse nibbled a dangling light bulb, was electrocuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Windshield stickers must bear the letter (A, B, C) of the car's ration card after July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gas Pains | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Escape. In Marion, Ohio, a pheasant flew through Motorist Fred Maag's windshield, a bee darted through the opening, Maag overturned the car while fighting off the bee. Maag climbed out of the wreckage uncut, unscratched, unstung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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