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...present domestic and foreign demand," though at a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers he advised "a 25% expansion in 100 octane capacity" to be on the safe side. But that was before Britain began bombing Germany, before the U.S. began helping Russia, before the new U.S. bomber program sent high octane demand estimates soaring...
Target is a full, authentic, minute record of an R.A.F. bombing raid on Germany-from the telltale packet of negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...
...target of the title is a newly sprung-up clump of naval stores (oil, barges, etc.) spied out by reconnaissance craft at Frei-hausen, Germany. The camera follows the raid preparations: selection of the target by the Chief of the Bomber Command in his great hall papered with maps, cluttered with ceiling-high ladders, scale rulers, calipers, telephones; designation of one experienced squadron to make a low-level attack; instruction of the chosen crews at Millerton Airfield by the Wing Commander; arming, gassing and readying the bombers; and, when night comes, the takeoff...
London revealed that when British Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bownill, Atlantic Ferry Command head, flew from Canada to England last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 20) his bomber carried an unusual cargo: 100 yards of canvas for London's firemen to paint pictures on. It was sent by the Montreal Arts Club, which, impressed by a recent Canada exhibition of London firemen's art, had decided to do something "in admiration of the fine work of the men who fought the battle of flames and recorded it in paint...
...Under the personal management of Timothy Q. Mouse, a rough rodent of the Jimmy Durante school and a vigorous new Disney character, Dumbo discovers what his ears are good for-flying. This time he takes off from his window high in the burning building like an angry dive-bomber, turning, banking, looping the loop, and finally machine-gunning the other performers with peanuts sucked into his trunk from the vendor's cart...