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They had to learn the tremendous, all-important value of flying judgment-from the moment of take-off until they touched down once again on the airport. They had to learn to respect the tail gunner of an enemy bomber. But until cockiness got the better of them, and they scraped close to death, they could not learn to leaven courage with caution. And that took time...
Father Kaiser promised the first of his transports within ten months. Skeptics are sure it will take longer. But the freighters that cannot be sunk by subs will be welcome whenever they are finished. General Arnold admitted, as he announced that the Army itself had converted 21% of big bomber production to freighters: "Right now we need cargo planes badly, and two years from now we will still be needing them...
...Army for theft. But it soon becomes apparent that this was merely a ruse to put him to work in Army Intelligence. His quarry is Sociologist Greenstreet, brain of a Japanese plot to bomb the Panama Canal. At Colon, nerveless Hero Bogart busts the plot, shoots down the Japanese bomber with a captured machine gun, and all ends gruesomely...
Desperate Journey (Warner) well might have been titled the Rover boys in Naziland. The Boys (Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Ronald Sinclair) are members of an R.A.F. bomber crew shot down near the old Polish frontier. Their circuitous escape to England (three out of five get back) is accomplished with more outrageous luck than even Rover Boys can count...
...Boeing is one of the three biggest U.S. heavy-bomber makers (the others: Martin and Consolidated), has sidelines in training planes, multi-place gliders and huge Navy flying boats to boot. Its order backlog is near $1 billion (v. only $23,000,000 in 1939); its 40,000 workers hatch warbirds three or four times as fast as a year ago. And, despite near-confiscatory taxes, its profits after taxes this year may top the whopping $6,113,000 earned last year...