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Many an old peasant improved Savchenko's script by offering him a real sequence from the last war. One, after watching for some time, politely informed the director that the sequence was not quite correct. He said tomatoes now grew where his barn had been, that the Germans had taken his cow and knocked out his wife with a rifle butt. In other particulars, however, the scene was faithful. Then he added: "We killed the German near the tree over there." There is no more make-believe in Svirki. The Germans took it again last year. Now everyone...
Tucked away in rolling wheat fields near Fort Worth, Tex., is one of the most astonishing war babies of World War II. Its name: Globe Aircraft Corp. Its age: 25 months. Its plant: an oversized barn. Its manufacturing experience: construction of only two small planes. Its backlog in War Department contracts: $18,500,000 (with $40,000,000 more said to be in prospect). Its chief owners: extraordinary and influential people...
...Kennedy went to Texas during World War I, picked up a reputation as an amateur boxer, made money in chemicals, vaccines, livestock. He set up Globe with the help and cheers of the local Chamber of Commerce. Its plant was a 50-by-300-ft. tile and galvanized-iron barn built for Kennedy's string of show horses. Its intended product was a good-looking, twin-engined plastic-and-plywood "Executive Transport" designed to carry eight, sell for $35.000. This ship was built on the West Coast before Globe was formed...
Last week Kennedy's horses still ambled up to the barn window, idly stared inside, switched their tails. But President Kennedy was plenty excited. He had just learned that the Defense Plant Corp. had okayed an $800,000-odd contract for factory-sized additions to his barn. With this money-plus all or part of the 30% cash advance on his Army contract-Kennedy hopes that by Sept. 1, the first Globe-built Beechcraft will roll out the factory doors...
...mare to serve that day he lolls around in his stall from 9 to 11, then lunch; 12:30 p.m. to 4: more lolling; 4:30 p.m.: cleaned and fed again (eats oats, bran, Nevada hay and a mixture of timothy and clover); then tucked into the barn for the night...