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...best anti-aircraftsman in the country got a job worthy of his talents. Major General Sanderford ("Sandy") Jarman was put in charge of the newly formed First Army Anti-Aircraft Artillery Command. A mountain of a man, who stands 6 ft. 5 in. tall and weighs 250 lb., he has an enormous beat to cover. It stretches from Canada to South Carolina, from the East Coast to the Mississippi. Sandy Jarman needed many more men, much more equipment than...
...birth-control movement in the U.S. to the existence of a totalitarian plot.....Elinor Glyn, who brought forth "It," came away from an interview with Britain's Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was "Vril." She said it meant energy......In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country, got a 20-mile ride with grandmotherly Queen Mary, the beauteous Duchess of Kent...
Last month Ace Buckley came home, only to have his flying career make a crash landing in a Toronto police court. Skeptical Canadian authorities had checked up on Buckley's record, found that he was a plain aircraftsman who had been washed out of a pilot-training course in England, then deserted. Fortnight ago, police nabbed him swanking about Toronto in a flyer's uniform with a D.F.C. ribbon...
...engine business. In 1917, tall, brusque, brilliant Colonel Jesse Gurney Vincent, Packard's chief of engineering and designer of its famed Twin Six, went to Washington with the original blueprints of the famed Liberty engine in his grip. There Colonel Vincent went into a huddle with a California aircraftsman named Colonel E. J. Hall. Five days later they came out with an improved design. Before the war's end Packard delivered 6,500 Liberties to the belligerents...
...ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings. was prepared to convert plant space of World War I vintage to other munitions production. Aged (73) Tank-Designer Walter Christie popped up in Washington with plans for a tank to be hooked to an airplane and landed ready for combat. Aircraftsman Glenn Martin in Baltimore declared that all the established industry needs to get into real mass production is mass orders. Two men in charge of the dynamo whence all this humming proceeded were a white-haired young man named Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and a Danish, cat-stepping giant named William...