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Laura Ingalls, pint-sized, trophy-winning aviatrix, was jailed by the FBI in Washington as an alleged propaganda agent for the Nazi Government. Speaker at many an America First gathering, peace-pamphlet "bomber" of Washington in 1939, Isolationist Laura was charged with having been on the Nazi payroll (and failing to register as an agent) since Aug. 1. She took up flying in 1928, began setting records in aerobatics in 1930. She was the first woman pilot to fly east-west nonstop coast to coast, bagged a Harmon Trophy in 1935 "I was a free agent and took no orders...
Jose Iturbi pondered an invitation to direct the Palestine Symphony next summer. Among the inducements: transportation by R.A.F. bomber; "the largest and most luxurious air-raid shelter in the Near East, with marvelous acoustics...
Interceptors were confined to one zone, anti-aircraft batteries to the other. But pilots on the tail of a bomber will not let go, zone or no zone. With anti-aircraft enormously improved in accuracy, ground batteries today can plug enemies even while their interceptors are closing...
...week voted to "sacrifice part of [his] time" to Vultee. He will devote his main efforts to the huge production problems involved in reorganizing and rationalizing the Vultee plant (a pioneer in developing aircraft assembly-line production) and that of Consolidated (which must share in the doubling of the bomber program announced by Bill Knudsen last fortnight...
...Almost all aircraft plants are partly or completely air-conditioned. At Wright Aeronautical's huge Lockland, Ohio plant, a 6,000-ton* conditioner helps keep parts of the 1,700-h.p. radial engines perfect to the closest tolerances. At Dallas, North American Aviation uses artificial weather in bomber assembly. Wright Field uses refrigeration units to test engines and planes at -67° F.; decompressors to simulate flying conditions...