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...French and Lowlands coast. In a two-hour raid on Brest they caught an Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser repairing in dock. But though concentrating on submarine bases, the R. A. F. showed that it was still taking the long view. It was officially stated that the Short Stirling bomber, for which the British claim the best speed-range-load performance yet, was in service. It was unofficially guessed that the plane which flew to Cracow, Poland and back (TIME, March 3) was a Stirling shaking down...
...French Ambassador has two busy aides in his press attaché, Captain Charles Emmanuel Brousse, bomber-squadron commander in World War I, and his longtime friend and assistant military attaché, one-eyed Lieut. Colonel Georges Bertrand-Vigne, another soldier of Verdun and Narvik. In addition he numbers among his good friends the elegant Mrs. Williams, ageless Lady Mendl, Count René de Chambrun (Pierre Laval's son-in-law, who quit the U. S. for France after Laval's fall), Jeweler Pierre Carder (longtime paterfamilias of the French colony in Manhattan), onetime U. S. Ambassador to France...
...still not mass production, FORTUNE points out, and could not justify the expensive specialized tooling required by mass-production methods. The military airplane relies on fluidity of designs to outfly the enemy, a multiplicity of designs to satisfy a multiplicity of functions (dive bombing, altitude bombing, torpedoing, strafing, bomber protection, interception, night pursuit, sea patrol, observation, training, transport and liaison work, etc.), a precision in design unnecessary to consumer goods. Thus military planes cannot be coaxed off the assembly line like V-8s-even in Detroit...
...charge was made as a group of union representatives was presenting to a federal conciliator a set of written demands as basis for settlement of a threatened strike against three Ford plants which have $154,000,000 in government contracts for airplane engines, pygmy trucks, and bomber sub-assemblies...
...thing, the communiqué announcing the raid did not specify what type of bomber was used. The latest Vickers-Armstrong Wellington bombers claim an effective range of 2,000 miles, with 2,500 pounds of bombs, but if they actually can make such a range, it is curious that they have not been used on missions to Austria, whither many of Germany's war industries have been moved. This raid may have been pulled off by U. S. Flying Fortresses...