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...four-engine bomber drops a ten-ton blockbuster on the Tokyo palace, I will consider then that we have reached the beginning of the end of Japan...
Balding Winner Spangler made a double-jointed, fence-straddling statement. For the benefit of party progressives, he said: "... We haven't the same world, with the modern bomber, that we had in the days of the 30-knot battleship. You no longer can say that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are moats around America." For the benefit of party diehards: "My job is to build up an army of voters in the United States to defeat the New Deal, and I don't think there are any votes in China or Mongolia or Russia that...
...Kahn's factory designs-"all-under-one-roof," later "all-on-one-floor"-became part & parcel of developing U.S. production; industry's demands for his services made Kahn a mass-producer himself. Ultimately he designed some 1,000 buildings for Henry Ford (including the vast Willow Run bomber plant), 127 major plants for General Motors, in four decades planned two billion dollars' worth of industrial building. Russia gave his engineers charge of the first Five Year Plan's heavy industrial building program; they built 521 factories in two years...
Commanded by Colonel Eugene Eubank (now a brigadier general in the Bomber Command in Washington), most of the original 19th arrived in the Philippines in November 1941, after the longest mass flight (24 Flying Fortresses) in U.S. aviation history. (Such flights are now routine.) It found its base, Clark Field, little more than a cow pasture. When the Japs hit Clark Field Dec. 8 the U.S. Army knew so little about modern warfare that many men sought cover under the wings of the planes on the field. They paid with their lives. Almost half of the 19th's Fortresses...
Peppery Mr. Patterson told the Namal Industrial Conference Board that the post-war airplane will not put older slower transportation forms out of business. This assertion collides head on with Grover Loening's breezy statement last May that 45,000 planes of the bomber type that Henry Ford is building could handle the 500 billion ton-miles of freight carried last year by the railroads...