I’ve just finished research on air conditioning and refrigeration in the 1940s. It’s for part of the News’ celebration of its 75th anniversary this year. The story is scheduled to appear in the April 30 issue, which highlights “75 Years of Cooling.”
It actually was a fairly easy story to do, because through much of that decade there was a single theme. Our industry — as well as the rest of the nation — had a single-minded purpose, that of winning a war.