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Buffalo for the Brewster F2A, Catalina for the Consolidated PBY. (These two names were taken over from the British...
...city streets, Joe got along better. When his gang started something, Joe finished it. One day in 1931, one of his pals persuaded him to go to the Brewster St. Recreation Center (a settlement house in the heart of Detroit's "black bottom"). There Joe learned to box. At first he disliked it, preferred handball. But within a year, Joe Barrow was the best fighter in the Center, won a silver cup as the most outstanding novice light-heavyweight in Detroit's Golden Gloves tournament...
...Brewster Aeronautical Corp. (Newark, N.J.) needed mechanics who could crawl inside flying-boat wings, hold rivets in place while workmen outside hammered away with rivet guns. Brewster's skinniest workers found the chore a squeezing torture, could stand it for only a few minutes at a time. Along came 19-year-old Johnny Giovenco ("Johnny Gee" for short), a Brooklyn mechanic who usually had a hard time getting a job because he was only four feet high, weighed 88 Ib. He quickly got an inside job with Brewster. After New York newspapers printed his picture, little men swarmed...
...stones the U.S. was forging a chain about the Japanese Empire. One after another for months PBY flying boats have flown into the Orient. Hundreds of U.S.-made planes are poised on Dutch airfields in the Indies : Martin bombers, Curtiss pursuits. Singapore hangars are filling with Lockheed Hudsons and Brewster Buffalos...
...James R. Brewster, for the preparation of an experimental text to be tested in courses in Audio-Visual Aids at Harvard and Boston University, such text to be provided with a sufficient number of charts, drawings and illustrations to avoid the usual misunderstandings...