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Certain was that for the first time an absolutely first-class warship had been struck directly by a modern bomber. The damage, though bloody, did not exceed that of a six-inch shell. The Deutschland was not disabled, easily made her way to Gibraltar whose harbor she entered with flag at half-staff. British vessels lowered their flags in sympathy, the crew of the U. S. S. Kane attended a memorial service for the dead before the Deutschland steamed off for repairs in Germany...
...undaunted Claire Egtvedt kept plugging at the military contracts Boeing and its Kansas subsidiary, Stearman Aircraft Co., have never lacked. An engineer pure and simple, President Egtvedt kept Boeing plants small, while others, like Douglas, were overexpanding. He devoted all Boeing's energies to creating a magnificent new bomber - the great 299, now called YB-17. This four-motored monoplane is the most potent aerial fighting machine in the U. S.. has a 3,00-mi. range, 250-m. p. h. speed. Though a careless pilot crashed the first, the Army ordered...
...Screened off in one corner of the Boeing plant is the growing skeleton of an even larger four-motored bomber, all details of which are still deeply secret...
...been submerged in the political squabbles of Spain's Leftist Government. With his predecessor, General Jose Asenseo, booted upstairs to Undersecretary of War, General Pozas moved mountains to get a sense of discipline and a few rudiments of drill into his militiamen. A lucky hit by a rebel bomber on a reported Russian freighter unloading at Cartagena seemed to prove Britain's assertion that Russia was supplying tanks, artillery and planes to Spain's Red Government, but practically none of this material last week reached the Madrid front. President Manual Azana of Spain and other Cabinet officers...
Angry because Russia has sent not a single Red Army bomber to aid them, 17 newly organized Socialist and Communist battalions about to leave for the front last week paused in Madrid to adopt this startling resolution: "Stalin has deserted to the Fascist camp! He is trying to sabotage the Spanish workers as in the past he wrecked the chances of Chinese, Austrian and German proletarians. Down with Stalin...