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Women are no problem in such places as the AC Spark Plug in Flint, which has employed women for years, easily converted men & women alike to machine-gun making. Briggs Mfg. Co. in Detroit simply took women from the upholstering department, taught them to put fabric on bomber wings and rivet framework...
...took the lead in urging preparation for the war that was coming. May I, as a subscriber to TIME, urge you to plug for a curt, clear and complete reporting by newspapers of the war that is here...
...Vent. For substratosphere military flying, supercharged cabins are needed in planes, and the compressed air makes the crew feel hot, stuffy and uncomfortable. Airesearch's solution: an automatic outlet vent whose cone-shaped plug, controlled by an altitude-sensitive device and powered by the energy arising from differences between inside and outside pressures, varies the opening's size. With it is combined a safety valve ("overriding control") which lowers the pressure inside the cabin if the plane ventures into extreme low-pressure altitudes (above 40,000 ft.), where a supercharged cabin with its 8,000-ft. interior pressure...
Comedian Jack Benny, to whom Comedian Bob Hope presented a special Oscar for being "sweater girl of the year" (in Charley's Aunt), got another present last week-not to be opened until autumn. Next season, Sponsor General Foods confessed, Benny will plug some other General Foods product, not the Jell-O with which he shares his present fame. Reason: JellO, being 60% sugar, may not be made nor sold in sufficient quantities to warrant the expensive exertions of Funnyman Benny, whose new two-year contract calls for a salary of $22,000 a week for 35 weeks-highest...
Destruction is one aim. A guerrilla learns how to derail and wreck trains, blow up tanks, destroy planes on the ground, dynamite bridges. He steals at night into the middle of an enemy motor lorry park, removes sparkplugs, drops an iron bolt into the engine, puts the plug back and steals away with the satisfaction of knowing that the engine will be ruined when someone tries to start it in the morning. Or he drops sugar lumps or pours linseed oil into a gas tank, which will immobilize a car by the time it has run four miles...