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People. Before his press conference, Franklin Roosevelt had spent a crowded week. Into his office had marched a long parade of visitors. Vice Admiral Raymond A. Fenard, 56, balding chief of the Giraud-ist French naval mission, had brought a model of the 35,000-ton French battleship Richelieu. Builder Henry J. Kaiser brought another model, of the new 514-ft. aircraft carriers that will roll off the ways of his Vancouver shipyards at the rate of six a month by the end of 1943. Bearing no gifts, but only urgent business, had come such men as Cordell Hull, Sumner...
...Manhattan last week Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser announced a new acquisition in the East: Bristol, Pa.'s Fleet-wings Inc., stainless-steel plane builder, whose $50,000,000 backlog includes Army trainers, parts for other aircraft firms...
...less willing to admit, in so many words, that Yank is, objectively approached a morale builder for the masses of the Army; the privates, corporals, and sergeants. But Yank is that; its prime but never outspoken theme is the Glorified Enlisted Man. It also plays the more formal role of purveyor of information to the ranks. McCarthy feels the functions of entertainment and information are divided "fifty-fifty" in his paper...
...designer, onetime big-plane builder Igor Sikorsky, knew that fellow airmen no longer regarded the helicopter as a product of aviation's lunatic fringe. This week his craft got formal recognition, when the Army Air Forces (which had tested it at Dayton) announced that it had ordered some helicopters for military...
...biggest aviation merger in world history was all set and ready to go last week: ingenious, light-plane maker Vultee Aircraft into venerable, bomber-builder Consolidated Aircraft. When officially joined some time this month, the new Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. will be a vast, highflying enterprise with $270,000,000 total assets, annual sales of over $500,000,000, annual profits of roughly $15,000,000. Its line of aircraft, moreover, will include everything from Stinson "flying jeeps" and private planes to deadly Vultee dive-bombers, long-range, four-engined Consolidated Liberator bombers and Coronado flying boats-plus a titanic...