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...course cargo space in the Atlantic Clippers is at such a tremendous premium that our allotment is for only 200 pounds once a week-and so we cannot send nearly enough copies to satisfy the demand. But we print a special lithographed edition on flyweight paper in a third plant just outside New York City (our two main plants are in Chicago and Philadelphia)-and we leave out most of the ads and use special light-weight binding staples-and one way or another we get the weight down to one-third as much as a regular copy of TIME...
Center of the revolution was big, bald Engineer Henry J. Kaiser, whose motto has always been: Who can't? Kaiser had gone to Washington with a big, bold plan to build 5,000 cargo planes and lick the shipping shortage-the kind of vast, impossible vision that Americans love. At Washington's hands, the vision had suffered shabby treatment...
...halls of Congress up rose Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee, to tell what his Military Affairs subcommittee thought of cargo planes and the men who scoffed at them. Senator Lee had always been an Administration stalwart, slow to criticize an official word or deed. Now his words sounded as if a new, fighting spirit were abroad on Capitol Hill...
...Everyone appearing before the committee favored increasing the production of cargo aircraft, but there was a defeatist attitude on the part of some. A defeatist attitude is not warranted by the facts...
...Landing stages are nearly awash from the weight of iron and steel products ready to be shipped north or south, when fat, white side-wheelers pull up, conveyor belts immediately move incoming cargo to freight trains paralleling the river, while sunburned, sweating dockers fill up the space with outgoing materials...