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Harvard Club of Buffalo: Peter F. Kranz, Buffalo...
...would take some 300 long-range antiaircraft guns to protect New York City alone. Sixty-one big anti-aircraft guns might be enough to put up a spotty defense of a city the size of Buffalo, N.Y. To defend Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, the rest of the crowded industrial Atlantic seaboard, would take thousands and thousands of these guns...
Like an unexpected break in a Shostakovich symphony, the grinding cacophony of production in the great Curtiss-Wright aircraft plant near the Buffalo airport clattered to a deep, silent stop one day last week. For an hour the production line stood still while Big Bill Knudsen and other national defense bigwigs dedicated a low-lying, businesslike monument to U.S. ingenuity and industrial speed...
Unlike the superpowered, high-altitude fighters now in the works for the U.S. Army and Navy flying services, the Kittihawk is this year's airplane, will do plenty of fighting before the snow flies. From the Curtiss-Wright plant at Buffalo, better than 250 a month are coming off the line, complete to the last machine gun. They start to grow in an older and smaller (827,000 sq. ft.) plant across town at Tonawanda where fuselages are built, engines and armor are installed. At the new airport plant wings and landing gear are added before they are flown...
...through the 24 hours of the day. Within a few months, 12,500 men will be working in the new plant and 500 of this year's fighters will be coming off the line every month: one of the reasons why Bill Knudsen was able to promise in Buffalo that last July's U.S. production of 1,460 would be raised to 3,000 a month by next summer...