Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Sirs: CONGRATULATIONS ON "U.S. AT WAR," YOUR ISSUE OF DEC. 15. THIS IS THE FINEST PIECE OF NEWS REPORTING THAT I HAVE EVER READ. RALPH P. BELL Director General of Aircraft Production Ottawa...
Training Center students do the same things a doughboy does, often under tougher conditions. Under big, hardboiled, disciplinarian Lieut. Colonel Leigh Bell, onetime line coach at U.C.L.A., they are broken out at 6:15 a.m., spend the rest of the day at everything from close-order drill to digging emplacements. In wrinkled fatigue uniforms, with packs on their backs, they pile through mud and brambles, scrape out fox holes and rifle pits whenever their "noncom" gives the word. To serve as their enemy in mock warfare, the Training Center employs maneuver-wise enlisted men. Students who make mistakes hear about...
...climbing in & out of trucks, they get an idea how to load troops comfortably, estimate loading capacities. To teach them how to judge marching speed, Colonel Bell makes them hoof for miles. Functions are rotated every day, so that everybody gets a crack at every...
Fighter planemakers quickly fell in line. Bell Aircraft, almost strike-shut a fortnight ago, announced it was going on a 24-hour day, seven days a week. Northrop did likewise. Curtiss-Wright boasted that its pursuit-plane output had hit a new record. Little Republic Aviation this week jumped to an around-the-clock basis v. two 50-hour shifts previously. United Aircraft reshuffled all its plans, announced that the $26,000,000 it will raise from a preferred stock sale (TIME, Dec. 8) will now go for wartime expansion, instead of post-war contraction...