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...Detroit News and Secretary of the Navy Knox's Chicago News printed a report that Chrysler Corp. had taken a $100,000,000 contract to build a bomber engine plant in Chicago. Scooped correspondents besieged an officer responsible for such announcements. Said he: "Even if it's true, you can't print it," ignoring the patent fact that it had just been printed. The War Department then retreated to a second line: okay, the contract is news, but don't use the name or type of engine Chrysler is to build. Lieut. General William S. Knudsen...
...club is surprise production-a total output which will exceed anything the enemy has reason to expect, in much less time than he would normally expect. Moral: why tell the Jap (as he was told last week) that the U.S. is upping its output of long-range bomber engines...
...needs, is thinking of refurbishing 125 ancient trolleys, all of which have rusted in storage barns for at least five years. (Detroit is also the scene of an Alphonse & Gaston fight between bus lines and railroads over who is to service Henry Ford's vast Willow Run bomber plant, scheduled to employ 100.000 men 20 miles from town...
...dark record of war in the Pacific with great valor and victories. Outnumbered, their slender stock of early-type P-40s diminished by ground strafing, crashes and a few casualties in the air, they still went by threes and sevens and tens against much larger Jap fighter-bomber formations. Said a spectator in Rangoon: "It looked like a fleet of rowboats attacking the Spanish Armada...
Given a month's leave, he tried in Cairo to bum a ride to the U.S. with William C. Bullitt aboard a bomber. Bullitt said there was no room. But not for nothing had Correspondent Allen been able to talk the British into letting him become the Fleet's first correspondent. He followed Bullitt in a commercial plane across Africa. The next two days and three nights Hitchhiker Allen rode in the empty bomb compartment of Bullitt's plane...