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Pancake on Legs. Ernst Wollweber spent the last years of the war in Russia. In 1946, he came back to Germany and stepped into his seemingly legitimate job in the Ministry of Transport. He has a glowing bald spot, and his once rugged frame has grown so fat and flabby that his staff refer to him covertly in the Berlin dialect as "Pfannkuchen uff Beene"-pancake on legs. But inside, as the West is learning to its discomfort, Ernst Wollweber is still the tough and brutal plotter, still a master of his craft. His diligent Red troublemakers and riot-prompters...
...weeks later, the pilot sneaked Mrs. Lassetter aboard a big Dakota transport usually reserved for the private use of Britain's Japanese occupation commander, Lieut. General Sir Horace Robertson.That night she landed at a military airfield in southern Japan. She spent the following day hiding out in a poolroom. "I think you call it pool," she explained later. "Anyway, where they hit something with a stick...
Fred Rentschler's dreams soon ranged far beyond engines to a great air combine. He, Bill Boeing and Chance Vought decided to merge their plane and airline companies into United Aircraft & Transport Corp., rounded it out by adding propellers (Hamilton Propeller Co. and Standard Steel Propeller) and large amphibians (Sikorskys). When National Air Transport, holding the Chicago-New York mail route, balked at merging with them, Rentschler said imperiously: "The air between the coasts is not big enough to be divided." He bought up National's stock in the market until he had a controlling interest; its bosses...
...truncated United Aircraft. Trouble of a different sort now struck Pratt & Whitney. By 1937 it had lost the lead it once had over Wright Aeronautical, largely because it spread its engineering talents trying to develop nine different engines, while Wright concentrated on its famed Cyclone, grabbed much of the transport and military market...
...flying boats in his Vought-Sikorsky division (they were competing with his planemaking engine customers), and decided to start pouring millions into a brand-new type of aircraft, the helicopter. In 1940, Igor Sikorsky made the first helicopter flight in the U.S., and opened up another field of air transport. But soon, the helicopter, and most other experimental projects at United, were swept into the background. World War II came and the big job was to expand production of United's engines, propellers and Corsair fighters...