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...President, he said, "has sustained my statements in the Senate as to the production of combat planes." (He had charged that July output of bombers and fighters was only 700, up only 200 from January.) Furthermore, the President had not answered Byrd's low estimate of tank production; or his charge that only 105 merchant vessels, including tankers, will be completed this year-less than the Germans sank in June or July; or his statement that only 28 major naval vessels will be added to the fleet before...
...Appropriations are of no avail, neither does equipment on order win wars. What we must have and have quickly are the completed tanks, the guns, the combat planes, and the ships...
...this made everybody but the Germans very happy. It pleased Britain, whose forces would get more U.S. planes quicker, whose ferry pilots would be released for combat. It pleased the U.S., which would achieve a preliminary security by getting air bases flanking Dakar. It pleased Pan Am, which now needed only a Cairo-to-Singapore link to have the basis of the sole round-the-world postwar airline...
...Late for Tomorrow?" As organizer and first commander (1935-39) of the Army's General Headquarters Air Force, Major General Andrews whipped the Army's few, scattered, under-equipped combat squadrons into a small but efficient fighting...
...attempt to combat such Government interference will be a series of ads on advertising which will make pointed reference to a statement made by Franklin Roosevelt when he was Governor of New York...