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Over the weekend, 60 B-29s landed in Britain (see cut) and 1,200 U.S. airmen stepped out of them...
...halt the Palestine war. Finally, U.S. and British policies were brought into line. In a matter of hours after that, the prestige and potency of U.N. returned last week, and the Arabs followed the Jews in accepting a truce in Palestine (see below). The truce in Palestine, the B-29s in Britain, were signs of the same solidarity...
...With the heat of the street scorching the soles of our feet and smoke bringing tears to our eyes, we walked through the bright red city. We passed Japanese firemen trying to pump water from the palace moat, the only remaining source in the whole city. After the B-29s, people had taken refuge in the waters of the moat, hoping to escape the flames; hundreds of bodies had been found there. The people of Fukui say that tonight's quake was worse than the B-29s...
...orders. Orders for 162 more of its huge B50 Superforts will bring its total backlog close to $500 million. Expanding to get out the planes, Boeing had reopened its vast Wichita plant No. 2; and housewives and farmers were going back to their wartime jobs to help modernize B-29s and make B50 parts...
...summoned Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, who had originally asked for only enough money to fill out the present 55-group force. Under congressional prodding, he had produced a makeshift, economy-sized 66-group program. It would provide ten of the extra groups by taking 300 old B-29s out of storage, and modernizing them...