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...ancient Utah, a target-training ship long since out of combatant service. Atop the Utah was a steel platform for sandbags (as crew protection) when she was doing duty as a moving target for bomber novices. The attacking Japanese, thinking her an aircraft carrier, subjected her to repeated, withering attack...
...traveling exhibition was "This Shrinking World," a series of smaller and smaller globes of the earth measured in terms of travel time over the past 100 years, from 150 days of circumnavigation in 1840 to eight days in 1940, from clipper to Clipper. Using the British Whitley bomber with its 700-mile range as typical of most medium bombers today, pictograph charts show that the raider theoretically can carry 6,250 lb. of bombs for a distance of 50 miles, but that it can carry only one 500-lb. bomb for a distance of 700 miles...
...last week not a single U.S. aircraft plant was operating around the clock. Some, like New Jersey's Brewster Aeronautical (while shifting models) actually had been laying off hundreds of men. But OPM's order changed all that. California's Douglas Aircraft (two-and four-engined bombers) began changing from a five-to a six-day week. At Ypsilanti, Mich. Ford-men worked 24 hours daily (under big floodlights at night) to finish the biggest U.S. bomber plant (see cut). The first mass-produced four-engined bomber should roll out of Ypsilanti by spring, but handmade jobs...
...According to some reporter the Jap pilots were diving their airplanes onto the deck of our boats like human bombs. Just as they had used those human dynamite charges at Shanghai to break up Chinese barbed wire. Vag shuddered. He tried to imagine himself as the pilot of a bomber, poised high above a sleek, tall ship of war carrying the white banner with the orange sun. He could imagine himself trying to force his muscles to shove the stick forward and aim himself in the fatal dive. Somehow, he couldn't quite work up the nerve. His muscles seemed...
...Consolidated's huge San Diego plant, Vultee's President Richard W. Millar, Rube Fleet and an army of lawyers toasted the deal with Coca-Colas in paper cups. Thus Vultee took control of Consolidated through a 34% stock interest, and Rube Fleet will be U.S. big-bomber-builder No. 1 no more...