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...year-old inventor may have made aviation history last week. In San Francisco, before an audience of Navy officers and aviation bigwigs, including Grover Loening, head aircraft consultant of WPB, young Stanley Hiller Jr. demonstrated a helicopter of startling maneuverability. He held the machine steady in the air just a foot off the ground, turned it around while hovering, landed the craft within a foot of its take-off point...
Could Cap Krug expect to have full control at WPB ? No one knew. A reporter asked the President if Nelson would return to WPB after his China trip. The President dismissed it as an "iffy" question, too far in the future (see The Presidency...
...Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp., had just moved out of No. 7 Old Army Road, Scarsdale. To add to the confusion, G.E. also has an engineer named Charles Edward Wilson. Last week G.M.'s Charles Erwin Wilson reported that three Detroit friends had urged him not to quit WPB...
...WPB relaxed shoemaking restrictions on color and styling of many civilian shoes. Henceforth manufacturers...
...order meant little actual relief for the U.S. The restrictions had been a WPB effort to prevent rationing by making shoes less attractive. In lifting the restrictions, WPB's motive is to protect dealers by giving them fresh merchandise so they will not be caught with shelves full of drab wartime shoes when rationing ends...