In US, Military and Car Industry Benefit Each Other

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Jeff Green, Better Gas Milage, Thanks to the Pentagon. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 27, 2012 (cover date).
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... nks-to-the-pentagon

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(b)
(i) For M5 light tank, see M3 Stuart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_Stuart
(formally "Light Tank M3"; made in and used by US, and also supplied to UK; Produced 1941–1945; The name General Stuart or Stuart given by the British comes from the American Civil War Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and was used for both the M3 and the derivative M5 Light Tank; To the United States Army, the tanks were officially known only as "Light Tank M3" and "Light Tank M5"; The M3 Stuarts were the first American-crewed tanks in World War II to engage the enemy in tank versus tank combat)
(ii) Cadillac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac
(Cadillac is currently the second oldest American automobile manufacturer behind fellow GM marque Buick and is among the oldest automobile brands in the world; founded in 1902 by Henry Leland, a master mechanic and entrepreneur, who named the company after his ancestor, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, the founder of the city of Detroit [in 1701]; GM purchased the company in 1909 )
(iii) Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Laumet_de_La_Mothe,_sieur_de_Cadillac
(1658-1730; In 1701, he founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit [by the Detroit River; hence the name], the beginnings of modern Detroit)

Quote: "On June 25, 1687 [age 29], he married Guyon’s daughter, Marie-Thérèse, 17, in Quebec. The marriage certificate is the first document where his new identity appeared. He called himself 'Antoine de Lamothe, écuyer, sieur de Cadillac,' and signed as 'De Lamothe Launay.' In fact, like many immigrants, he took advantage of his arrival in the New World to create a new identity
(iv) Detroit River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_River
(a 28.0-mile-long (45.1 km) strait in the Great Lakes system; travels south from Lake St Clair to Lake Erie; The name comes from the French Rivière du Détroit, which translates literally as "River of the Strait")

The French noun détroit means "strait." Being a French word, its pronunciation is different from that in English.
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-english/détroit
(v) automatic transmission
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_transmission
("The first automatic transmissions were developed by General Motors during the 1930s and introduced in the 1940 Oldsmobile as the 'Hydra-Matic' transmission. They were incorporated into GM-built tanks during WW-II and, after the war, GM marketed them as being 'battle-tested'")

(c)
(i) jeep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep
([nowadays] a marque of Chrysler Group LLC; The first Willys Jeeps were produced in 1941[1] with the first civilian models in 1945)
(ii) Willys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys
(the brand name used by Willys-Overland Motors; "In 1908, John Willys bought the Overland Automotive Division of Standard Wheel Company and in 1912 renamed it Willys-Overland Motor Company. From 1912 to 1918, Willys was the second largest producer of automobiles in the United States after Ford Motor Company"; the 1920 recession brought the Willys Corporation to its knees)
(iii) four-wheel drive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-wheel_drive
(4WD, or 4×4 ("four by four"); a four-wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all four wheels to receive torque from the engine simultaneously)

Quote: "section 4 History: * * * It was not until "go-anywhere" vehicles were needed for the military that four-wheel drive found its place. The Jeep, originally developed by American Bantam but mass-produced by Willys and Ford, became the best-known four-wheel-drive vehicle in the world during World War II. Willys (since 1950 owner of the Jeep name) introduced the CJ-2A in 1945 as the first full-production four-wheel-drive passenger vehicle.

(d)
(i) North American P-51 Mustang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang
(conceived, designed and built by North American Aviation (NAA); Introduction  1942; Status  Retired from military service 1984, still in civil use; section 2.4 Non-US service: [Republic of] China)
(ii) Chevrolet Camaro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Camaro
(manufactured by General Motors under the Chevrolet brand)
(iii) For "high-compression engine," see compression ratio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_ratio
(A high compression ratio is desirable because it allows an engine to extract more mechanical energy from a given mass of air-fuel mixture due to its higher thermal efficiency; section 7 See also: "Overall pressure ratio - a closely related ratio for jet engines")

(e) Bradley Fighting Vehicle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Fighting_Vehicle
(named after World War II General Omar Bradley; In service  1981–present)