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Dallas. In a News editorial: "Mch hs bn wrttn abt rfrmed spllng as a savr of spc. Possbly ths wld b a gd pln. Bt it wld b a bttr pln if it wer carrd frthr. If a systm of abbrvtns wr adptd, as mch as 40 pct of spc cld b savd. ... It wldn't be so hrd as u mght thnk. U cn read...
Grapevine Discipline. The Army is launching a new safety campaign with posters. Some of the posters point out the differences in the characteristics of different planes. "A P39 [Airacobra fighter] will climb like a homesick angel," reads one. "A bt-13 [Vultee trainer] won't." , Officially unmentioned but part & parcel of the safety campaign is a grapevine disciplinary system. The accident-preventers launch a word-of-mouth report that Pilot Joe Doe pulled a pretty dumb one when he groundlooped that P-4O. Presently the gossip reaches Pilot Joe Doe, who feels terrible...
...strike walked the 3,000 production workers of Vultee Aircraft at Downey, Calif. Work on a whacking backlog of $84,000,000 (including orders for $50,000,000 worth of vitally needed Army training planes) was stopped. Left in the factory hangar were 17 completed BT-13 Army planes. On the assembly line were 20 more that would have been finished by week's end. To Downey rushed War Department, National Defense Commission and Labor Department officials to confer with C. I. O. men and Vultee officials about the union's basic demand: an increase in minimum wages...
...plant is on a quantity production basis. Glenn Luther Martin's plant at Middle River, Md., got its start with a real automobile-type assembly line with thumping orders of 151 Bio bombers from the Army and 117 more from The Netherlands. North American sold 350 of its BT-9s to the Air Corps and 457 BT-9s and BC-1s (a combat edition) to France and Britain to start its line. Douglas with an order for 100 of its new attack bombers from France, has a $15,000,000 order from the Air Corps for the new ships...
Shocked were most Australians when Air Marshal Sir Edward charged that the Dominion's high proportion of air accidents is due to disobedience of orders or bad flying discipline; that Australia's prized fighting plane, the Wirraways, similar to the U. S. Army's North American BT 9, possesses insufficient speed for a modern fighter and is fit only for a temporary expedient or a training ship: that all Australia's service squadrons are below strength in men and oncers...