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...when the weather is too low for precision bombing the American Fortresses can ride "in the soup" to their targets, unload bigger bombloads because they have achieved a quality which airmen call "interchangeability"-i.e., they can take light loads to high altitudes over long ranges, or they can cut down their fuel load and have bomb-rack room to load up with explosives. At Emden the Fortress load averaged around four tons each. Extra bomb racks had done the trick, without sacrifice of the Forts' defensive power...
Single-Seat Versatility. In single-seater fighter aircraft, the U.S. emerged as the owner of the most dazzling display of any combatant. Working on the aeronautical axiom that "there is no substitute for soup," U.S. designers got their super-powered (2,000 h.p. and above) craft off the production lines and into action. The result was something more than they expected when design was begun, generally three or four years...
Last week one of the big Government-building cafeterias (the Bureau of Printing & Engraving) was denounced as "horribly unhealthy." Specific gripes in the complaint of the United Federal Workers of America (C.I.O.): a mouse in the soup container, worms cooked in greens, a caterpillar in the gingerbread, chewing gum on a pie plate, fish scales in the soup, improperly washed china...
Today Harry Ruby, one of Hollywood's busiest men, has shifted most of his attention from songwriting to comedy scripts, has turned out such slap-happy scenarios as the Marx Brothers' Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, Eddie Cantor's The Kid from Spain...
...many kinds of fog-dry, wet, sea, land, smog (smoky), black (sooty), ice, pea-soup (moderately smoky, yellowish, once thought peculiar to London)-most are not troublesome to flyers because they are shallow or ephemeral. But there is great danger in advection fogs, produced by the drifting of warm air over cold land or water or snow banks (common off Labrador): they are deep-sometimes thousands of feet-and treacherous...