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...Detroit, Hudson Motor Car Co. last week gave its dealers their first look at a new low-priced car to compete with Ford, Chevrolet, Studebaker and Plymouth. So far unnamed and unpriced, the car is 60 in. high, weighs 2,800 Ibs., midway between a Ford and a Henry J, has a new 100 h.p. engine which will get about 20 miles per gal. A one-piece, curved windshield and a large rear window give it more glass area than most low-priced cars. Hudson hopes to get a four-door model into production by Thanksgiving, will...
...first big naval exercise. Mainbrace was conceived last year by General Eisenhower to convince NATO's Scandinavian members (Norway and Denmark) that their lands can be defended in the event of war with Russia. One morning last week, 85 men-of-war (including the U.S. carriers Midway, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wasp, the Royal Navy carrier Eagle and battleship Vanguard) steamed in stately grey lines out of the Firth of Clyde. On the F.D.R.'s bridge, Skipper George W. Anderson made an announcement: "Any man who spots a periscope before it attacks gets special liberty to London...
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Research Institute requires 30 gal. samples of city of Chicago water at least five yrs. and not more than 20 yrs. old. Phone Midway 3-0800, Ext. 2502, or write 5640 Ellis...
...stop a few feet from Truman's private plane. Televiewers watched Truman turn and wave at the precise moment that his alternate, Thomas Gavin, cast the President's vote in Chicago. A few hours later, mobile trucks caught Truman again, this time at Chicago's Midway airport. Said Harry Truman (who had a TV set on the plane): "This is the first time a President has been able to see himself get into an airplane, take off, and then land...
Tokyo Extravagance. The old Trigger's first patrol began with the worst kind of embarrassment: within sight of Midway during the great battle with the Japanese fleet, she ran on to a coral reef and stuck. But next time out, there began the thrill of the chase and the underseas tension that were the normal climate of the subs. As in all forms of combat, the best of training was only partial preparation for the first attack and counterattack. Moving in for the kill, lining up the first ene my ship in the sights, the torpedoes crashing into...