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...Eighth Air Force, badly stung by losses to German rocket-bearing planes, tried new tactics which worked well. Planes were accompanied to their targets by long-range fighters, and mass attacks were meshed with large-scale feints and supplementary bombings. Subsequent bomber losses on three big successive daylight raids...
...enemy. The pattern began with a feint at France, in the form of Marauder and Spitfire attacks on airfields at Tricque-ville and St. André-de-1'Eure. This sucked fighters away from the Lowlands in time for 550 Fortresses and Liberators-the largest U.S. heavy bomber force ever used-to cut for Wilhelm shaven with upwards of 1,200 tons of bombs. With that huge force were U.S. fighter types which made the escort possible-450 Thunderbolts and long-range Lightnings, all carrying belly tanks. As this mass attack returned and German fighters settled again on Lowlands...
...through 600 miles of underground workings, involving 2,000 patented claims, with heirs spread from Atlanta to China. RFC took one look at the legal snares, refused funds. Then the Bureau of Mines, anxious to increase zinc production, took an interest. (Zinc is used in brass cartridges; every big bomber carries 500 pounds of it.) As a war measure, Congress last spring gave Ickes the $1,400,000 he needed for the tunneling. Owners gave consent for the tunnel's right-of-way. Hard-boiled Harold Ickes, once he had the money, didn't wait "for legal unravelings...
...light metal magnesium, virtually ignored in the U.S. before the war, is revolutionizing U.S. metallurgy. Thanks to chemists, it is now being produced cheaply and plentifully, playing a big role in the war (e.g., in a four-motored bomber it saves enough in engine weight alone, as compared with aluminum, to increase the bombload-by 360 lb.). Among its many postwar possibilities, Haynes sees a magnesium grand piano that one husky man can lift by himself...
Since tight food rationing began last spring, the small Dixie Market in little Ypsilanti, Mich. (1940 pop. 12,000), hard by the Willow Run bomber plant, has done a big city business. For 10½| hours a day, seven clerks hustle to fill the grocery orders of the 4,000 customers who jam-pack the store every week. Yet the store has never collected a ration stamp from a customer. For the Dixie Market deals only in unrationed groceries...