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...night bombings of Britain which began fortnight ago continued last week, until British nerves strained for bombs. The Daily Express called the pause a "Lullablitz." Weather was not good, but it was not bad enough to keep the R. A. F. grounded ; they struck at invasion ports in bomber squadrons protected by huge fighter escorts, and met scanty resistance. First the British thought perhaps the Germans paused because their oil supply was low; then they wondered whether the Nazis had taken a really sizable force to the Balkans and Sicily; then they suspected planes were being sent home for changes...
...last week got its answer to the big question: When, and on what scale, was the automobile industry going to turn its mass-production genius into the job of building airplanes for national defense? Fortnight ago, Ford and Chrysler announced that they would help with the business of building bombers. Last week the rest of the answer came from G. M.'s President Charles Erwin Wilson (successor to Big Bill Knudsen). General Motors was going into the bomber business, too. From the three, the U. S. should get its bombers at the rate of 5,000 a year...
General Motors' choice of an airplane to build was the Army's speedy 6-25, a slim, two-engined bomber made by big North American Aviation (in which G. M. owns a 29% stock interest). G. M.'s bits and pieces will be shipped to a new plant (owned by the Government, operated by North American), there assembled, tested, flown away for service...
Ford and Chrysler also have made their choice. In San Diego, Edsel Ford and his crack Production Chief Charles E. Sorensen spent a couple of days looking over a Consolidated (B24) four-motored bomber, then went north to Santa Monica to talk to Planemaker Donald Wills Douglas. Result of many conferences was Ford's announcement that it would build 6-245 for assembly in two plants. Consolidated will operate a plant at Fort Worth, and Don Douglas will see that his competitors' flying fortress is well made, properly tested, in a plant at Tulsa. Chrysler's pick...
...face of this, the newspapers convey word that the 20,000 employes of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in California, from their own pockets, raised the money to build a bomber for the British Government. Why can not the common people of this country be ... given a chance in their own way and with their own means and savings to contribute their share to the defense of this country...