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When Corpus Christi swings into peak operation in July, its 800 instructors will get 300 raw cadets every month. By that time the Navy's new air station at Jacksonville, Fla. will be at capacity (200 a month) its third air training station, Pensacola, up to 300. But Corpus Christi will be the only station where the full flying course (primary, basic and full advanced training) is given...
From this monthly pool of 800 potential airmen, the Navy hopes to get a peak of 560 pilots a month by next spring. It sorely needs them. Slow in getting under way, the Navy air program produced only 715 pilots last year, bringing its total to 3,639- a long way short of its immediate goal (15,000 fliers to man a 10,000 plane fleet), of its 1945 objective (25,000 active and reserve pilots) . Best it could hlpe for, even with the 13-month training course cut to seven and a half, was 6,000 graduate pilots...
...largest U. S. banks (in 79 cities) had lent $572,949,466 to defense industries by the beginning of the year, were negotiating for another $112,235,733. But still the bankers' activity was more boomlet than boom; commercial loans stood far below the 1929 peak...
...Colorado's famous old Cripple Creek mining district, which produced $24,986.990 worth of gold in its peak year (1901), men have been boring a tunnel for 20 months in search of pay dirt. Last month they found it. Water gushed from the rock, sent them scurrying from their tunnel. Soon the flow reached 20,000 gallons a minute-enough to cover an acre of ground to a depth of 100 ft. in a single day. The water level in Cripple Creek's long-flooded mines dropped fast. By last week the 2,600-foot-deep Ajax mine...
...Cripple Creek field (said to be named for a stream in which a cow once acquired a limp by getting stuck in the mud) is 36 square miles of volcanic rock on the southwestern slope of Pikes Peak. There, half-century ago, men's fortunes boiled as furiously as had the prehistoric lava which formed the plateau. A cowhand named Bob Womack, after digging so many holes that he endangered the lives of his employers' cattle, made the first strike in 1891, went on a spree, and discovered next morning that he had sold his claim...