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...Settled were strikes at the International Harvester plants in Indiana, at the Bendix Aviation Corp. plant in Philadelphia...
...Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman, who (along with Henry Wallace) had suggested that the Axis powers wanted Roosevelt beaten. Lehman himself was fanning a war hysteria, said Holt, in order to swell the dividends of Lehman Corp., of which his cousin is president, and which, said Holt, holds shares in Bendix Aviation, Vultee, Stinson and Lockheed Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Dow Chemical, New York Shipbuilding, Freeport Sulphur, and Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown and U. S. Steel...
...Road junctions were reduced to craters, railroad junctions and yards were smashed and littered with wreckage. Military headquarters were knocked out by sharpshooting bombers almost as soon as they were set up. Apparently few bombs were wasted by bad shooting. Harold Francis McEnness, European representative for big, research-wise Bendix Aviation Corp. (aircraft carburetors, magnetos, instruments, other accessories), told of a raid on the Citroen automobile plant outside Paris...
More than nominally interested in aviation is the biggest U. S. motormaker: General Motors Corp. Holder of 30% of the outstanding stock of North American Aviation, Inc. (military planes) and 19% of Bendix Aviation Corp. (aircraft accessories), it is also sole proprietor of the big Allison plant, where G. M. engineers are working with might & main to get the U. S. Air Corps's only liquid-cooled aircraft engine into mass production...
...starts, but'she doesn't arrive anywhere," male fliers used to say of Jacqueline ("Jackie") Cochran. Blonde, jolly Miss Cochran (Mrs. Floyd Odium on the ground) made them mend such talk in 1938, when she outflew nine men and won the arduous, annual Bendix Trophy Race in 8 hours, 10 minutes, 31.4 seconds (male record: 7 hours, 54 minutes, 26.31 seconds). Last week she popped another speed mark into her bagful of trophies and records: 2.000 kilometers (1,242.74 miles) from Burbank, Calif, to Albuquerque, N. M. and back in 3 hours, 44 minutes, 47 seconds...