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There is no "world's best fighter plane." A mediocre low-altitude pursuit ship can give short shrift to a crack medium fighter caught hedgehopping. But for nailing enemy bombers and escorting friendly ones at really high altitudes (25,000 to 40,000 ft.), it looks as if the U.S. can now claim the title. So say the pilots who fly the Thunderbolt...
...settled the question last October. At the War Department's request he has bulled through most of his program to expand U.S. rayon cord capacity 100,000,000 lb. annually (to a total of 200,000,000 lb.). He was all set to use rayon cord in all medium and heavy synthetic tires for the Army. To the outraged protests of cotton Senators (who called Jeffers before the Senate's Agricultural Committee) Jeffers gave a flat answer: the Army wanted rayon; the Army was going to get it. Army tests, he said, had proved rayon had higher tensile...
...instance, no matter how old he is, a 5-ft.-9-in. man of small frame may safely weigh from 140 to 151 lb.; medium-frame weight is 149 to 160, large-frame weight is 157 to 170. The old-fashioned tables show a gain of 12 lb. between the ages of 25 and 50. The actuaries say that such gaining is unhealthy...
Lieut. Lawson was so eager to get going that the intensive training ("Our planes were in the air at 7 a.m. each morning and sometimes we'd still be at it at 10 p.m.") did not bother him. He thought the B-25 (North America's medium-range Mitchell bomber, stripped of its radio, bottom gun-turret and Norden bombsight) was a lively ship...
...last week the blue chips and the medium-priced stocks were hot. Day after day U.S. Steel shouldered its way into the list. Other blue chips, Westinghouse Electric, General Mills, Monsanto Chemical, reached new highs. Most top blue chips had gained ten points since the start of the year. The war-rich public was spending in the market the cash it could not spend elsewhere. And many a buyer was learning a stock could be a better value at $50 than...