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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...time housekeeping and such other costs as research and administration were taken out of the pre-Korean defense dollar (see chart), only 18? was left for the actual purchase of tanks, guns, ships, aircraft and other weapons. For that 18?, the U.S. did not get much. Chief reason: postwar equipment is so much more complex than that of World War II that the price has gone up astronomically. Examples...
LeMay loved flying (has since logged 7,000 hours), but he was no comic-strip fly boy. While his classmates swooped off for weekends in Los Angeles, he often hung back to take engines apart, work at machine guns, pore over weather charts and navigation logarithms. Result: after seven years in fighters, he was called from Hawaii to fly the first of the Army's Flying Fortresses because he was the rare Army airman who could find his way around with a navigator's sextant and chart. From then on his career was set as a big-plane...
...massive press conference in RKO's chart-lined budget room, Wald and Krasna beamed over the details of the juiciest independent production deal in movie history. In five years, Hollywood's "wonder boys" would make $50 million worth of A pictures for RKO release. The movies, to be cranked out at a production-line rate of twelve each year, would be financed 40% by Howard Hughes and 60% by Eastern banks. Besides weekly salaries of $2,700 apiece, Wald and Krasna would rake in 50% of the net profits on each of their 60 films...
...months before Pearl Harbor, U.S. Army engineers asked Sverdrup to chart a string of air bases for a plane-ferrying route to the Philippines and Australia; he was in the Fiji Islands when war came...
...worse off in military plane production than it had been at the time of Pearl Harbor, when it had had the benefit of two full years of preparation for war including French and British orders (see chart). By the end of 1941, the U.S. was turning out 19,290 military aircraft a year; in the last twelve months, only 2,713 military planes were delivered. And the scheduled production for the next twelve months is even smaller-a spindly 2,297 planes, in the face of current Soviet production believed to total 12,000 military planes a year...