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...brings down two planes for every one of its own lost, Germany is turning out some 2,300 planes a month, and Great Britain only 1,200. Fact is that the Allies have no hope of gaining command of the air even if Lord Beaverbrook can boost home production (see p. 36) until 1941 when the U. S. begins to deliver planes and Canada to deliver pilots in quantity. Unless Germany runs out of airplane gasoline there can be no early equality in the air except in the courage and skill of pilots...
Moreover he got a hustler to fill it: a bumptious, result-getting, self-made man, Baron Beaverbrook, the impish...
...Canadian village bumpkin who all his life has outsmarted city slickers, William Maxwell Aitken "The Beaver" skyrocketed from selling sewing machines, cement and insurance, in which he had little faith (even today self-reliant Beaverbrook carries no life or personal property insurance), until at 31 he dominated a Canadian cement company and liquidated his dominion holdings for $5,000,000 in order to go to the mother country and have...
...Camrose, major Fleet Street competitor of The Beaver, came out handsomely in his London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post: "As one of the new ministers comes from Fleet Street, which has the best means of estimating his powers, we may offer warm welcome to the decision which has made Lord Beaverbrook Minister for Aircraft Production...
With 38.7% of its articulate readership on record as "bewildered" about the war and 46% "determined"' (TIME, April 1), last week Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express suggested that the public be "given a clear indication as to the manner in which the Government believe victory can be won." As M. P.s packed up to return to London for the reconvening of Parliament this week, Great Britain's bewilderment had given birth to deep-seated public dissatisfaction with the way its Government was running the "strangest of wars." While the Allied Supreme War Council talked tough, while France...