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From bowsprit to stern, the Sea Cloud measures 310 ft. She has a bulk of 2,323 gross tons, carries 36,000 sq. ft. of canvas on her four towering masts. Below decks are four diesel engines which can boost her along at 14 knots. Under sail, she can step up her speed to 16 knots. But it was not such figures that awed the roustabouts in Baltimore; it was the fantastic elegance of her fittings...
Airplanes. The first question on 60,000 airplanes is the aluminum supply, which was short even in 1941, when plane output was put at 18,000. That shortage is rapidly being met. Expansion under way will boost aluminum 1942 output to 1,450,000,000 lb. (1939: 327,000,000 lb.), and 1943 plans call for 2,000,000,000 lb., including 300,000,000 lb. from Canada. At a rough average of 13,000 lb. of aluminum per plane, 60,000 planes will take less than 800,000,000 lb. But aluminum is needed for many things besides planes...
...airplane output could be boosted: honest-to-God freezing of designs. Some planemakers complain that the Army still changes its mind more often than a hen crossing a road. Concentrating on fewer models would also eventually boost output. OPM has a standardization plan in the works, may test it on pursuit-ship output in a few big factories...
...liquor companies have already helped the regular industrial alcohol makers by taking contracts for 76,000,000 gal.* of alcohol for powder (TIME, Oct. 13). Now they will make another 114,000,000 gal., boost total U.S. industrial alcohol output to around 500,000,000 gal., the highest ever. Unless Army & Navy consumption of powder exceeds all estimates, the distillers alone will soon make enough alcohol to slake the thirst of the guns. Then the regular industrial alcohol makers can go back to their normal customers (plastics, paints, chemicals...
...Only reason for any automobiles at all in January is that the automakers jiggled the priorities-allocations machinery artfully enough to pile up $213,000,000 in finished and semi-finished parts. None of these parts can be used in war work, so Washington ruefully okayed the quota boost. This will use up $100,000,000 worth of parts; the balance will be put away for spares...