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...first requirement, without which all else becomes moot, is enough airlift to transport quickly at least four strategic divisions and all their fighting tools from U.S. staging areas to any part of the globe. To achieve maximum effectiveness and security once in the arena of war, Army planners have evolved a "cellular" -as opposed to the traditional linear-system of offense. It will permit only 2,000 men in an area occupied by 8,000 to 10,000 in World War II. Such dispersion will impose heavy demands on communications, so the Army is developing what it calls "battlefield surveillance...
...corner of Hurn Airport, near Britain's south coast, stand six black-painted hangars belonging to Vickers Ltd. Inside are planes abuilding that pose the biggest threat to U.S. domination of the world's transport airlanes. The planes are Vickers Viscounts, 48 place, 320-m.p.h. airliners with four turboprop engines. A fortnight ago the first Viscount of a 22-plane order for Trans-Canada Airlines flew across the Atlantic to Montreal. Last week another new turboprop took off for the other end of the world, one of a six-plane order for Trans-Australia Airlines which the company...
...production. Its huge, four-jet Vickers Valiant is Britain's first long-range A-bomber to hit the production line. And to back up its short-range Viscount in the battle for airline supremacy, Vickers designers are at work on the Vickers 1,000, a huge swept-wing transport with four Rolls Royce Conway bypass engines, designed to carry 150 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic...
...shrill note of opposition came when the Transport Workers' volatile Mike Quill, still burned up at the way the New York Democratic Party had blocked his candidate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., from the gubernatorial nomination, rose on the floor and claimed that the C.I.O. was a tail to the Democratic kite. He be moaned the fact that "we are tying ourselves tighter and tighter to the Democratic Party ... All across the country we find the blundering of the Democratic Party weighing us down." Quill called for "a third party, a political party, a labor party, a trade-union party...
...your footnote relating to the Air Transport Command's solution of the sooty-tern problem on Ascension Island during the war: I have always heard rumors that they did a very thorough job of simply throwing rocks at the birds - in fact, they did so well that they left no tern unstoned...