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...like good sense to the committee. At week's end, they voted 16-to-1 for the 70-group force, sent a bill to the Senate floor carrying $822 million to buy, as a starter, 825 new jet fighters (P-84s, improved P-80s), 28 heavy bombers (B-36s and B-50s) and jet bombers...
There were few doubts as to what that policy would be. Among its pointedly implied recommendations: ¶ The abandonment of the present U.S. military program, which embraces the manufacture of B-29s, B-36s, $13 billion for the War and Navy Departments, bases in Greenland and Okinawa. ¶ The abandonment of the U.S. atomic-control plan in favor of something more like Russia's counterproposal, which would give Russia atomic power without necessarily subjecting her to international scrutiny. ¶ The abandonment of U.S. resistance to Russian attempts to "obtain warm-water ports and her own security system...
...planes the Japs destroyed were largely obsolete - old two-motored B18 bombers, early P-40s, discontinued P-36s (which, nevertheless, shot down most of the planes credited to the Army...
...women pants-purchasers are not just the perfect 36s, but 40s, even 42s. Unbelieving manufacturers, who heretofore had made slacks mainly in Garbo and Hepburn sizes, were caught short by unprecedented orders for large sizes...
Against this rule the Allies made no headway so long as World War II was merely a threat. The French bought obsolescent Curtiss P-36s, surprised most U. S. airmen after war came by showing that they could put on a first-class show against the more advanced Messerschmitt log. The British bought Lockheed Hudsons, North American trainers, long past the secret stage. The one-year rule was first broken last September when the French were allowed to buy a new Douglas attack-bomber. Everybody knew the reason: the Air Corps was already interested in a new and better Douglas...