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...away the blank-check power that Army & Navy field agents all over the country now have over priorities -a big factor in today's hopeless confusion. He insisted he would not back down, because of Army & Navy opposition, on his promise that Henry Kaiser could go ahead with cargo plane construction...
While the can't-do-it experts dug up more reasons why Henry J. Kaiser can't possibly build cargo planes, the big West Coast engineer found a sure-we'll-do-it partner. To his aid, on a 50-50 basis, came enormously wealthy, enormously successful Howard Hughes, speed flyer, technician, designer, builder, young man of vision, and a hardheaded businessman...
...Cargo planes have long been a Hughes dream; in one of his rare public speeches, after his round-the-world flight, he predicted that airplanes would some day supplant ocean liners, said that the aircraft industry's future was "beyond the scope of the most fantastic imagination." Now that Imaginer Hughes and Imaginer Kaiser are teamed up, Americans may possibly see some fantastic results...
Last week, defiant of military logic, the Royal Navy made another try. Not since last June, when Axis raiders unmercifully pounded a fleet of slow-moving Allied cargo vessels in the western Mediterranean, have the United Nations tried to push another convoy through that hazardous sea. The Axis, entrenched along the shores where the sea funnels into the 100-mile-wide straits south of Sicily, boasted that it could not be done...
...Axis lost no time in claiming great success. Sunk, they said, were 15 cargo vessels totaling 180,000 tons, three cruisers, two destroyers. Sunk was the Eagle, set on fire was the U.S. carrier Wasp. Damaged ships, said the Axis, also included the 22,450-ton Furious. Destroyed: 42 Allied planes...