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...were figures that Adolf Hitler should view with alarm. And 1942's output will cut down heavily the proportion of training planes (now a little less than 50%) in U.S. production. It will also step up heavily the proportion of the Air Force's real sluggers: light, medium and heavy bombers. Most pause-giving prospect of all is the expected U.S. production of heavy (four-motored) bombers. They are now coming off the assembly lines of Consolidated and Boeing at a speed never equalled before. So far, this production is just a trickle. With the help...
...Other medium-tank production lines were beginning to roll at Baldwin Locomotive, Pullman-Standard, Pressed Steel Car. Lima Locomotive will soon be in production. Some, perhaps all of these, will soon get speed-up orders. But the big push will come from Ford and General Motors. With plants already available and top priorities for tools, they are expected to be in production by summer...
...designed to raise U.S. defense sights so high that they will not soon again, as in the past, have to be constantly shifted higher. The President's announcement: Congress will soon be asked for funds to double the tank-building program (presumably to provide about 25,000 more medium tanks, smaller but impressive numbers of heavy and light tanks...
...Western civilization into a continuous oscillation among periods dominated by one of three types of culture: the Ideational, the Idealistic and the Sensate. Sensate may be translated "scientific" or "materialistic"; Ideational as the culture which looks beyond the material world for all its values and aspirations; Idealistic a happy medium. Thus the Middle Ages was an ideational period, the scientific and rationalistic 19th century a sensate one. Each period, each type of culture carries within itself its own inherent doom,--its tendency to degeneration which will lead to its fall and to the rise and dominance...
...sometimes reduces the writer's respect for his audience to the sponsor's commercial level. Or the writer may be luckier than most showmen ever are. He may work for a sponsor, or for a broadcasting company, liberal enough to encourage first-class, spirited work in a medium of unplumbed possibilities...