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...rear wheels, an arrangement which claims to eliminate 551 parts, to facilitate keeping a fleet of trucks in condition, 2) a push-button door latch which needs but to be properly bumped to open, 3) an all-welded chassis (no bolts, no rivets), 4) a clutch-and-gear-shift combination which can be operated with one hand. Capacity of the truck is from 1½ to 3 tons pay load. Use, for door-to-door deliveries. Price, unannounced, probably around...
...Britain's air-training ground. Turning out 12,000 pilots every 28 weeks is to be Canada's big contribution to the war, and this, in the opinion of Anthony Eden, "might well be the decisive factor." The so-called Empire Air Training Plan went into gear last week with the arrival in Ottawa of commissions from Australia and New Zealand. Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons. Heading the Australian delegation was J. V. Fairbairn, Minister...
...tree over a canyon. In rescuing the boy he falls himself, breaks both legs. A lad who has never before been alone at the controls pilots Brad's plane and the two injured men out of the canyon, pancakes safely, though not before part of his landing gear falls...
When twilight fell on the People's Game of 1939, most football fans agreed that it was not Irish luck but heads-up football that has made this gear's Notre Dame machine one of the few undefeated, untied teams in the country. Except for Notre Dame's bigger & better backs (so many and so good that none hogs the spotlight), the margin of difference last week between the West Pointers and the South Benders was slight. But the Irish were quicker on the uptake. When an Army back fumbled in the second quarter, Notre Dame recovered...
Wheeler narrowly escaped death only three weeks ago on a Columbus Day grip to New York when the steering gear of his car broke while he was driving at 50 miles an hour and the car overturned. He escaped uninjured and went on to New York by train...