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...better idea of the future than the tame record (considered astonishing) of Hitler's triumphs in the air. It is no longer possible to print the specific facts about the U.S. air force which is building. But, without figures, the fact is no less true that the bomber of 1943 will show tremendous increases in speed, bomb-load and range over the fanciest models of 1941. And it is equally a fact, as De Seversky asserted, that, of all the world's nations, the U.S. is best equipped to create and exercise this new air power...
...first job when he left Yale was flying. A bomber pilot for the U.S. Navy in World War I, he came back from overseas with the rank of Lieut. Commander and the Navy Cross to wear on his blouse. He had been one of the sparkplugs of that amazing aggregation of young men known as the Yale Unit, who trained for naval flying service near his home in Locust Valley...
...experimental Douglas bomber with a bomb capacity of 18 tons and 7,750 mile range (TIME, April 28). *Davison was Lovett's predecessor as the War Department's air assistant-secretary; his appointment ended in the Hoover Administration in 1932, and until Lovett was appointed the vital job was vacant. *Corresponding to G-I on the War Department General Staff. †Not to be confused with Colonel Harold H. ('"Pursuit") George, who last week was made a Brigadier General for gallantry in Luzon. **This week the Army got its youngest general: 36-year-old Brigadier General Laurence...
General Motors expects to employ 450,000 persons (previous top: 303,000); Ford 200,000, including 25,000 women among the 100,000 employes of its bomber plant; Chrysler-130,000 compared to its previous high of 65.000. The correspondents wrote about production lines miles long. . . . Chrysler making at least $675,000,000 worth of tanks, planes and guns in 1942. . . . Ford with eleven miles of airplane runways at Willow Run . . . eleven miles of statistics which all boil down to the biggest, the best, the fastest, the most...
...rush started in December, when all plants put truck & bus tire output on a 168-hour week basis. Now Akron is setting production records on airplane tires, tank tracks, barrage balloons, bulletproof gas tanks, life rafts, gas masks, thousands of other wartime rubber items. Because the biggest bomber tire uses more rubber than 60 passenger-car tires and the tracks of a medium tank use almost a ton, Akron is "chewing" rubber at a record rate. December consumption was 60-70,000 tons, highest December ever and enough to use up the entire U.S. stockpile (Jesse Jones's figure...