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...little changed, but only Chevrolet and Pontiac looked much like the 1953 models, and even Pontiac brought out a new series, the Star Chief, to give car buyers a sporty-looking car at slightly higher prices ($100 more) than 1953 models. Buick was new from wheels to wrap-around windshield (TIME. Jan. 11) and so were the Cadillac and Oldsmobile: ¶ Oldsmobile is two inches longer and three inches lower. The lines are long and sweeping, with a massive grill, recessed front doors and a wrap-around windshield...
Pilot Leo Burr Clark, an Air Force lieutenant from Charleston, S.C., banked steeply to the left, thus saving many paratroopers ahead. As bodies banged against the plane-one smashed into a propeller, one was almost decapitated by the wing, one broke the glass of Clark's windshield with a great crash-he did not forget the jumpers hooked up to the static lines in the fuselage. He set off the emergency bell, warning them of imminent danger, both the pilot and the copilot, Lieut. Stanley Robert McCaig of Tieton, Wash., were still in their seats when the plane...
...left side of the plane. He was last in line, and it was his duty to quarterback the jump. Luckily, all the jumpers in the plane had already "stood up and hooked up" (i.e., fastened their parachutes to the static lines in the plane). When Sluss heard the windshield break with a sound "like two cars hitting," he wasted no time. Shouting, pushing, struggling uphill as the bucking, lurching plane headed down, he got his men out and managed to jump safely himself. Jumpers on the right side of the plane...
...Curtiss-Wright has a backlog of almost $1 billion in orders, President Hurley is taking no chances in the feast-or-famine airplane business. A full 30% of his backlog is civilian business, and he is not concentrating on engines alone. Curtiss-Wright is making electronic equipment, textile spindles, windshield wipers, precision clutches, and diesel engine governors. A plastics division makes household gadgets, nylon-molded gears, wheels, and bushings for automobiles. Says Hurley: "Eventually, I would like to match our military business with civilian business, dollar for dollar...
Auto manufacturers, Harper insists, could easily reduce the killing effect of accidents. One simple improvement would be to attach the seats so firmly that they cannot come loose and toss the passenger into the windshield. Another would be to pad the dashboard properly and remove its projecting knobs, which Harper calls "fangs of death." Even at very slow speeds a person can die of a punctured skull if his head hits a fang of death...