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...demand, from such men, there was yet hope. A leading Wheeler-Isolationist, Colorado's Senator Ed Johnson, strangely got together with a leading Roosevelt-New Dealer, Oklahoma's Josh Lee, to propose a Senate bill to create a new military supply board to direct immediate construction of cargo planes-thus indicating their impatience with a war effort which fails to do the right things fast enough...
Kind Commander. A black-hulled U-boat, its conning tower decorated with a goat insignia, surfaced near two seamen swimming amid wreckage from their torpedoed cargo ship. Hauled aboard, Cornelius O'Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued...
...Battle Opens. Navy patrol planes picked up the first enemy column west of Midway on June 3. This was the landing force: cruisers, transports, cargo ships, many escort vessels. Far to the north a U.S. carrier force ranged. But it would be a full day before it could get within range...
...still lies ahead. What there is of the Air Transport Command is as yet too picayune to play an important part for General Somervell's Services of Supply. The U.S. has still no true cargo planes, built with tail or nose hatches for easy loading and unloading...
Hundred-Tonners. A WPB air-cargo committee has explored the possible construction of 100-ton winged trucks. The Department of Commerce wants 800 all-steel freighters (stainless steel is still at a premium). The Army has contracted for lots of DC-3s, hundreds of 25-ton Curtiss twin-engined troop-toting Commandos...