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Some details of performance and fire power were still purposely blurred. The B-29 has a maximum speed at its favorite altitude (high) of "well over 300 m.p.h.," its ceiling is "well over 30,000 feet." Boeing did not give its maximum range or bomb load, said simply that it carries a heavier load farther and faster than any other heavy bomber. Total fire power is still under wraps, but it is known that the B-29 is armed with .50-caliber machine guns, aimed and fired by remote control, and that it packs a 20-mm. cannon...
...plane nine soldiers had dived through the plane's door; the tenth, laden with his 90 pounds of equipment, got momentarily stuck. A 20-mm. shell hit him in the belly. Fuse caps in his pockets began to go off. Part of the wounded man's load was TNT. Before this human bomb could explode, his mates behind him pushed him out. The last they saw of him, his parachute had opened and he was drifting to earth in a shroud of bursting flame. Some of the airborne divisions were identified: the U.S. 82nd, tough veterans of Sicily...
...humanitarianism's most heartening success stories, got started because high-strung, pint-sized George Williams was no help to his stern English farmer-father. When he upset aj load of hay, his disgusted family apprenticed him to a small-town draper (drygoods merchant). A natural salesman, George Williams finally rose to ownership of his own draper's shop...
Relatives of Mark Twain last week began giving the world a new, important and frequently unflattering load of Twainiana. The Atlantic Monthly published the first of four articles based on letters (they go back to 1853 when Twain was 18) which Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote to members of his family and to his onetime publishing partner, Charles L. Webster.* They often show Twain at his worst-techy, cussed, filled with distrust of his fellows, a domineering egotist. They also often show him in full comical steam. In sum, they make the difficult man a more understandable genius...
This meant that despite a phenomenal 90% passenger load, record air express cargoes, and higher gross incomes, the industry was barely hedgehopping over the financial woods. TWA crash-landed in the red, losing $92,420 ($357,352 profit last year). Pennsylvania-Central and Western Air Lines lost $77,682 and $17,565 respectively. American, its net down 47%, still cleared the trees by $597,796. Well-managed United fared best, settling down to a $1,110,083 profit-almost as good...