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Eighteen months ago, as pink-faced, power-hungry Teamster Chieftain Dave Beck was leaning out across the nation to gobble non-teamsters into his big union, a rich and succulent ragout of manpower was uncovered at his very elbow. The independent Aero Mechanics Union began a lingering, unsuccessful strike at the Seattle plants of Boeing Aircraft Company...
Fighter pilots of the future may take their flying lying down. This week Wright Field's Aero-Medical Laboratory told about a "prone position pilot bed" that it is developing to replace the conventional pilot's seat...
Weather Change. Since the long, deadlocked afternoons at Moscow's Aero Club last spring, the U.S. had assumed the initiative. The Marshall Plan was one expression of it. Its mere promise was already altering political weather forecasts for Western Europe. For their part, the Russians and their friends, like the Comrades who gathered for a somewhat dampening rally in Milan last week (see cut), were putting up umbrellas...
...Aero Club in Paris, the officials waited breathless for news of the landings. One by one telegrams filtered in, but there was no word of Jacquet or the Dutch couple. For two days they were feared lost at sea. At last the word came. Jacquet had won, landing near Ghent, Belgium, after a flight of 430 kilometers (less than half the record distance). As for the Boesmans, they had landed only 50 miles from Le Mans. They hadn't bothered to telegraph, they explained, because they couldn't speak French...
...sudden popularity of the "Champagne Cobbler" (½ jigger syrup, ½ jigger lemon extract, 1 jigger curaçao, 1 jigger cognac, 1 chunk of pineapple, add champagne to taste, serve chilled. Price: $6.60). Even Molotov showed signs of gaiety. One evening, when movies were being shown at the Aero Club, he took special interest in a Russian animated cartoon involving the capers of three big bears. He was observed in convulsions of laughter and clutching his paunch when the biggest bear managed to outwit ths whole menagerie...