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Before they could get there, the bomber pancaked into the smooth field, exploded, broke in two, spouted flames. In spite of the danger of more explosions, the two young officers wrapped their coats over their heads, plunged straight into the blaze, dragged out Leslie Tower, chief Boeing test pilot and Major Ployer P. Hill, flying chief at Wright Field, both badly burned. The other three occupants managed to crawl out by themselves...
...Other press names for Louis: Brown Bomber, Ring Robot, Alabama Assassin, Dead-Pan Joe, Sepia Slasher, Dark Angel, Tan Thunderbolt, Detroit Dynamiter, Wildcat Warrior...
Engaged. Joe ("Brown Bomber") Louis, Negro heavyweight boxer; and one Marva Trotter, Chicago stenographer...
...Seattle workshop for all the world to see was trundled last week the hulk of the largest and most deadly airplane ever built in the U. S. Boeing Aircraft Co., after a year of secret construction, had finally assembled the giant four-motored bomber which it had manufactured for the U. S. Army under the contract name...
...wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, the new bomber is of three-ply all-metal construction. It is powered with four 800-h.p. Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps-first Army or Navy craft to have more than three motors. The motors are two to a side, streamlined into the high- camber cantilever wing. While the Boeing's fuselage is designed to carry bomb-racks, it would need but slight modification to become a commercial airliner...