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Better sounding is the fact that plane production has actually doubled since last November. From last October till last week contracts had been placed for 44,836 combat and noncombat planes (16,000 of them for Britain and Canada). In addition plans have been made for 2,400 medium bombers and 1,200 heavy bombers, whose parts are to be manufactured by automakers and assembled in Government plants...
Although we have been acquainted for years, through the medium of TIME, this falls into the my-first-letter-to-the-editor group...
...papers. One of them, lean, very tall (6 ft., 3½-in.), with a middle-parted mane of thick, snowy hair, cool, amused, shrewd eyes, was dressed conservatively and expensively, his crossed legs revealing old-fashioned high-lace shoes, with a boot pull at the back. The other, of medium height, fat, young, voluble, looked like an aggressive laundry bag; he was dressed as if various garments had been thrown on him as he hurried past...
...they plan to have for defense on the island. Before these restrictions went into effect last month, Army announcements had already summarized the forces then on the island. At huge, slowly building Borinquen Field on Puerto Rico's northwestern tip, there was one group of about 15 obsolescent medium bombers; at Ponce air base, near the south-central coast, there was an equal number of equally outmoded P36 pursuit planes. Planned and announced but not yet at their stations were three more bombardment squadrons, a reconnaissance squadron (about 70 more planes, 1,400 more officers and men, according...
Ambassador Gauss, who smokes so constantly that he seems naked without a cigar, kept out of the limelight as usual. Unobtrusive, sharp-faced, medium-tall, grey-haired, he has been in the U.S. foreign service for 35 of his 54 years. When he was 19, a State Department clerk at $900 a year, Elihu Root had just become Secretary of State, John Hay's Open Door in China was a reality, and the Russo-Japanese war had made Japan a world power. When young Gauss became deputy consul general at Shanghai in 1907, Teddy Roosevelt was sending...