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Theoretically outmoded U.S. planes (example: the Douglas B-18A bomber) now make ten-and twelve-hour flights, hop non-stop from Miami or Texas to the Zone. Pan American Clippers do it in six and a half hours. Existing bombers could, if pushed to the extreme, fly from French Dakar to the Canal Zone. Air power has thus completely revised all theories of the defense of the Canal. The only military solution: defensive air and naval power, based as far as possible from the Canal itself, as near as possible to the starting points of enemy attack...
...have flitted in & out of the war zone. To reporters Major General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, onetime Chief of Air Corps, now a Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, was mum on military matters (he may have cruised over Occupied France and Germany in a British bomber, as U.S, observers are authorized to do). But his return was signalized by an official announcement that several young U.S. pilots will soon get a chance to see that war. This was first-rate news for the U.S. Army. Many a capable young German got a useful education by similar excursions...
...Glenn L. Martin, bomber builder, cleared $1.70 in the first quarter (after walloping big tax reserves), equal to $6.80 a year. But the stock wobbles over the tape at 27, four times earnings...
...machine guns and cannon ever put on one airplane. Her bomb load is 18 tons, three times the slug packed by the Flying Fortress. Everything else about her is on the same outsize scale. Her tail surfaces are only four inches narrower than the wing of a Martin bomber, she has ten miles of wire in her innards, a telephone system with 24 stations, bunks for eight of her battle crew of 18. Into her went three million rivets, two million man-hours of work, the hope of Douglas and Air Corps men that she would show them many...
...slack, may even tax their ability to find management and workmen (General Motors has $725,000,000 in defense contracts on its books, and some companies, like Packard, are already as busy on defense work as on cars). Workers are being switched into making airplane engines, tanks, bomber parts, guns and shells. It has been estimated that the industry would have to employ 150,000-200,000 new men to handle the defense orders...