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...transmitter building is a great, three-storied, windowless structure painted battleship grey. Out of one side of it pokes a copper tube 86 ft. long. This is the giant lead-in, which local civilians once suspected was an atomic...
...giant is an enormous advance in bombers; it is a battleship of the air, and, like battleships, will probably never be mass produced as the B-29 was. And the cost is fantastically high: each bomber will cost an estimated $15 million v. $5 million for the B-36. Furthermore, the plane is so complicated that even Boeing has doubts about mass production. As Boeing's President William Allen put it: "Comparing a World War II bomber and the B-52 is like comparing a kiddie-car and a Cadillac. Designing the Flying Fortress took 153,000 engineering hours...
Like a canoe in the path of a battleship, a light plane was brushed by a DC-6 airliner coming in to land with 55 passengers at Dallas one morning last week. The light plane crashed and its two occupants were killed. Damage to the airliner: one nicked propeller, a severed radio antenna. Said the pilot: "We just saw a quick flash of metal and felt a slight bump. I asked the tower what hit us. Then we made a routine landing...
Dream Come True. The superliner is the dreamboat of William Francis Gibbs, 65, crack naval architect and famed designer of World War II's Liberty ships, and every type of naval ship from destroyer to battleship. He sold the dream to the Government and U.S. Lines Co.; the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry dock Co. made it come true...
Three days later, Davies pulled out of the hospital on a half-hour pass and went to cover a story on the battleship Missouri...