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Meanwhile officials of the Curtiss Aircraft Company are combing the women's colleges of the country for 800 girls to be trained for technical jobs...
...like story came from the town of Tonawanda, N.Y., where the U.S. Government has been backing and filling over a 1,200-house project (for workers at Curtiss-Wright and Buffalo Arms) for more than a year. Main stumbling block was that water, sewage and incinerator facilities were scarcely adequate to serve Tonawanda even before it was glutted with war workers, and the town was willing and able to pay only about one-quarter of the $488,000 estimated cost of enlarging them. Town Supervisor Roy R. Brockett beat his brains out on this problem, with "more than 35 persons...
...Curtiss-Wright borrowed Doolittle to demonstrate its planes in Chile, in competition with German pilots. At a party one night Jimmy Doolittle took on an average cargo of highballs, did a handstand on a window ledge two stories above the street. The ledge began to crumble. Ashamed to call for help, he fell to the sidewalk and broke both ankles. A German pilot insisted on running the plane trials on the scheduled day. Doolittle had his feet strapped to the rudder bar, chased the German from the sky. Later, with his crutches in the plane, he soloed across the deathtraps...
...engineers. Last week he came up with a spotty-looking aviation staff: Colonel John Hamilton Jouett, ex-World War I pilot, ex-president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, who will supervise Higgins' new aviation division; Inventor-Manufacturer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca; Aerodynamics Professor-Engineer Dr. Max M. Munk; Curtiss-Wright Designer-Engineer Alfred Victor Verville; three other expert airmen...
...Curtiss P-40-single-engine, liquid-cooled. Most discussed of all U.S. combat aircraft, this fighter has the virtues of heavy hitting power, excellent armor, high diving speed, and the leakproof tanks common to all U.S. combat aircraft. Against the Zero it has proved, on the average, to be superior. But most P-40 pilots frankly say that they would like more altitude, if they could still maintain their advantages of superior firepower and protection...