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...gone over by Henry Ford's bright old eyes. If he puts his mind to it, Henry Ford probably can produce planes in quantity; he certainly can produce aircraft engines. This week he announced that Ford Motor Co. is going to turn out a British (Rolls-Royce type) liquid-cooled motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Getting Under Way | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...outstanding stock of North American Aviation, Inc. (military planes) and 19% of Bendix Aviation Corp. (aircraft accessories), it is also sole proprietor of the big Allison plant, where G. M. engineers are working with might & main to get the U. S. Air Corps's only liquid-cooled aircraft engine into mass production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: G. M. Props | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...their engines are still largely hand-built, precision jobs. Last week an airplane designed for mass production with a minimum of handwork was flown in California. It was Timm Aircraft Corp.'s blue-&-gold plastic plane-with wings and fuselage pressure-molded from thin spruce plywood and liquid plastic (like the bakelite of radio panels), then baked in an oven. Test Pilot Vance Breese (who has designed and produced another plastic model) put Timm's plane through its paces, convinced at least one Army observer (Colonel Joseph L. Stromme) that "this may mark the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Great Illusion | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Distracted Mr. Barlow sizzled: "The bomb is dying every second. He meant that the liquid oxygen in his bomb was leaking into the air. A metal case would have held it, but the glmite had been put in a canvas bag so that there would be no flying fragments. Still no Senator Sheppard. Wailed Mr. Barlow: "It's seeping down through the carbon just like water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Explosion | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Week 1 of Hitler's war against the West was too frantic, and passed too quickly, for its real effect on U. S. business to become visible. But the first impulse of many a U. S. businessman was to get liquid and cancel his commitments. A selling panic hit the stock and commodity markets. But Hitler's victories also started a U. S. National Defense boom towards the blueprint stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Panic in the Markets | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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