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...officials also asserted that the four weeks ending Aug. 17 brought fewer than 300 Nazi bombers across the British coast -fewer than the R.A.F. bomber force which flew over the Continent on the night...
Every August newspapermen are invited to Detroit for a preview of Chrysler's new models (see p. 57). This year the preview was mostly tanks, bomber fuselages, anti-aircraft guns, Army trucks. When, at the end of a six-hour tour of defense production, a Chrysler official sarcastically suggested that the newspapermen might also want to see the new cars, a wag said: "Yeah, we might as well have a look at the by-product...
Knee-deep in its $400,000,000 worth of war orders, Chrysler should be in all the way by February. Then M-3 medium tanks should be rolling off 15 a day (against 5 a day now); then the assembling of Martin B-26 medium bomber fuselages should be started; then Bofors 40-mm. anti-aircraft guns should be in production. Already Chrysler's engineering department and laboratories are working 85% of their time on defense, developing a 2,000 h.p. airplane engine, a 500 h.p. liquid-cooled tank engine; a new airplane landing gear strut, etc. Half...
...sped aid to Britain last week, little Cuba was speeding aid to the U.S. Through Havana's streets the Municipal Band led a parade whose banners heralded the opening of National Aluminum Week. Purpose: to send the U.S. 35,000 pounds of aluminum pots & pans -enough for a bomber named the Cuba...
...Aside from United, only big producer to show lower profits than a year ago was bomber-builder Glenn Martin, bitten by production bugs (aluminum shortages, redesigning, etc.), as well as by taxes. Its first-half sales rose only 36% over 1940; profits-after computing taxes at 60%-dropped...