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...that a U.S. flyer, cutting across the mountains to Chinese Turkestan, had taken his plane up through a soupy overcast to 31,000 ft. Said the unnamed pilot: "I was surprised to find I was flying parallel with a mountain, between 2,000 and 3,000 ft. below its peak...
What an American plane was doing on the Turkestan route, Atkinson did not report. But directly across the line of flight between central Asia and some of the China bases lies the legend-shrouded, fabulous peak of Anye Machin. Standing at the clear headwaters of the Yellow River, high on the fringes of Tibet, cloudy Anye Machin has never been surveyed, is known to geographers and explorers only by native report...
General Motors' white-thatched President Charles Erwin Wilson gave the House Committee on Postwar Planning a preview of huge G.M.'s huge plans for the future. The news: if all U.S. businessmen plan things the G.M. way, postwar production will be 50% higher than the prewar peak and almost as big-in terms of employment-as it is now. Wilson highlights...
...plants, G.M. plans to employ some 400,000 people v. its 1939 peak of 201,000. (It now employs 465,000 men & women.) G.M. distributors should further employ some 200,000 people v. 135,000-150,000 prewar...
...auto industry will sop up much more steel in producing cars than in war goods. G.M., and "C.E.," consumes only 75,000 tons a month today v. 250,000 in peacetime, even though its $4-billion-plus rate of annual production is more than twice its prewar peak...