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More than the usual number of time-consuming bugs have cropped up in airplane production. At one factory making jet fighters, about 100 planes are ready for delivery as soon as faulty compressor pumps can be replaced. The Boeing B-47 stratojet bomber, plagued with bugs since the first day it flew, is now having trouble with fuel tanks and landing gear...
...real roar of the crowd in Madison Square Garden came for the man with the magic name: Joe Louis. Only those right at the ringside could see that Louis at 37, balding and thick-waisted, was little more than a bloated, moonfaced caricature of the famed Brown Bomber. The gamblers, out of respectful memory, made Joe a 7-5 favorite-but it was the shortest price ever quoted on the ex-champion...
Every special-purpose tool is an industrial problem in itself. Last week Cincinnati Milling engineers were poring over a book just received from an aircraft company, describing a new kind of bomber landing gear. "These are not blueprints," said one engineer. "They just explain what [the company] wants and leave it up to us to figure out a machine that will make it. Nothing like it has ever been made before." In the same way, other complicated problems are dumped in Geier's lap. Samples: ¶ The Air Force wants a tool that...
...schedules mean, for example, that one bomber, originally scheduled for delivery at 20 planes a month, now has a goal of 15 a month, which is still five more than current production. The wringing out means, says Boyer, that the date for completing the 95-wing Air Force, first set for mid-1953, won't be met until three or four months later. If Congress votes money for an extra 40 air wings, they cannot possibly be shoehorned into the existing program. The only way such a bigger Air Force can be built: keep production at its peak longer...
...ears in a fur coat, shaking a collection box (for "Winter Help") and crying cheerily: "A few pennies, please! It is more blessed to give than to receive!" They recall how unconquerably waggish he sounded when he shouted (on the eve of World War II): "If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Goering; you can call me Meier"-and how they still had to laugh when he came scuttling into an air-raid shelter on the eve of Germany's surrender, barking gaily: "May I introduce myself? My name is Meier...