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Time for Rejoicing? Britons naturally felt relieved at the end of the robot blitz. A few of them regarded this feeling as premature, fearing that V-2s might soon be dropping on Britain from within Germany itself. But few if any appeared to realize the terror that the robot still might represent for Britain...
That policy means that allowances of the pre-exam brew, already restricted to one a meal, may be lowered to two-cups a day. Any such move, however, would be temporary, and final action will depend on the working of the new coffee rationing plan which starts November 2S...
...2s are 250 feet long, are stuffed with 416,000 cubic feet of helium, cruise up to 2,000 miles at 55 m.p.h. Crew totals eight; armament includes machine guns, light cannon, bombs, depth charges. They are less vulnerable than laymen think, since helium is noninflammable. Airplane attack from above would be more or less ineffectual, unless their fire practically sawed off a section of the airship: some blimps can romp home despite a goodly number of bullet holes, despite losing as much as one-third of their gas volume. Such holes are easily patched, even in flight...
...tonnage at the outset of this war; twice the size of the U.S. merchant marine at the end of the last war); and 50% of U.S. foreign trade will be carried in native bottoms. Those bottoms will not all be such jerry-rigged jobs as the EC-2s. Some of them will be the best merchant men in the world...
Painful to U. S. airlines is the dizzy rate at which transport planes grow obsolete. In 1933 United Air Lines paid $2,500,000 for 55 Boeing 247s. Within six months the new Douglas DC2 outloaded, outsped them. When T.W.A. bought a fleet of DC-2s, United spent $1,500,000 more revamping its Boeings. But Douglas engineers were already mocking-up (building a model) the still bigger & better...