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Planes. Last October Chrysler leased 600,000 square feet of the old Graham-Paige plant, in anticipation of a bomber parts contract which came through eight months later. Right now this building has nothing to offer but clean floors, a fresh coat of paint, a few piles of aluminum sheeting and some planning boards, but here eventually the 11,500 parts that make up the nose and center fuselage sections of the Martin bomber will be assembled, production-line fashion (there are 2,500 parts in the Plymouth sedan body). Goodyear is making the wings of this ship, Hudson...
Vermont's mountain winds were harnessed last week to generate electricity for its homes and factories. Slowly, like the movements of an awakening giant, two stainless-steel vanes-the size and shape of a bomber's wings-began to rotate on their 100-ft. tower atop bleak Grandpa's Knob (2,000 ft.) near Rutland. Soon the 75-ton rotating unit will begin generating 1,350 horsepower or 1,000 kilowatts-enough electricity to light 2,000 homes. Wholly automatic, with its performance recorded by frequent photographs of its dial board, it will produce current about...
...Dive Bomber (Warner) is a 133-minute glorification of the U.S. Navy air arm and its flight surgeons. Most of it was shot at the Naval Air Station at San Diego. Some of it-especially the scenes aboard the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Saratoga-is almost straight documentary. All of it is an extravagant display of millions of dollars worth of armament gaily photographed in Technicolor...
Less can be said of Dive Bomber's plot. Elegant Errol Flynn goes about a flight surgeon's business of keeping the boys flying with genteel unreality. Belligerent Fred MacMurray, ace pilot, eventually sees the light and helps the surgeon design a high altitude pressure suit which costs MacMurray his life...
...Dive Bomber has all the flying an aviation cinemaddict can take at one sitting. Fleets of new and old-type multi-colored Navy bombers, fighters and patrol ships continuously roar down the sound track, in and out of formation. All's well with today's Navy-save one thing: Flyers Flynn and MacMurray are so absorbed in their work that they let big, blonde, beauteous Alexis Smith, the heroine of the picture, wander off in the end with the Marines...