Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doolittle quit speed flying in the Army, went to work for Shell Petroleum Corp. In July 1940 he heard the drone of warplanes, pulled on his harness again and went back to the Air Corps. (He had been a major in the Reserve during the decade.) He needled the Allison engine plant for production, got results. He studied manufacturing techniques to boost plane output. Once he took time off to pin newly won wings on the uniform of Jimmy Jr., at a Texas training field...
...Brigadier General Claire Chennault reported from Burma that his U.S. fighter-pilots had destroyed more than 200 Jap pursuits. The Zeros are fast-climbing, highly maneuverable, highly powered (1,675-h.p.) single-seaters. And even the Zeros, despite their superior maneuverability, have been no match for the faster, Allison-engined P-40s and their superior U.S. pilots. Lieut. General George H. Brett, the United Nations air commander in Australia, reported that United Nations airmen were destroying six Jap planes for every Allied plane lost in that area...
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...fifth place in the league standings. Coach Paul Mooney will start the same starting lineup in the hopes of repeating the winning combination. This puts Captain Stewart McIlvennan, who scored 15 points in the first game, beside A1 Pashayan in the two forward slots, with Harry Allison at center. Herb Maack and Les Martens will start at guard...
There may be other obstacles of the same kind that slowed production last year. Glenn Martin once had scores of B-26 bombers waiting on the field for propellers; Bell Aircraft waited weeks for Allison engines and 37-mm. aerial cannon; Lockheed for flight instruments. Such disbalances are mostly defects of organization, not materials, and are cured by experience. Output of air-cooled radial engines is now well ahead of schedule, and liquid-cooled production is stepping up fast...