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Listen is the idea of Mrs. Mina Curtiss, associate professor of English at Smith College and author of an Atlantic Monthly novel, The Midst of Life. Unable to convince Washington officials that the people are more interested in themselves than in Hollywood productions about them, Mrs. Curtiss bought guidebooks to the Midwest, noted that Iowa has the highest literacy rate in the U.S. and the tenth largest representation in the Navy. In two weeks, she sold her idea to Gardner Cowles Jr., who is not only publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune and of Look, but also owner...
Accompanied by a onetime New York World-Telegram reporter, Dorothy Walker, Mrs. Curtiss ranged Iowa in search of the usual. The two Easterners noted that Iowans resent being considered isolationist, that the women apply makeup spottily but have fine complexions, that nearly everyone avoided the word "war" but almost nobody forgot that the war was being fought...
...public heard that the Japanese Zero was a superior plane, then read that the antiquated Curtiss P-40 (Tomahawk) knocked the whey out of it. Reports said the Bell P39 (Airacobra) had too fragile a landing gear for the rough fields of Russia; other reports from the Red Front had Airacobras fighting German planes to a standstill. The later P-40s (Kittyhawks) supposedly couldn't get high enough to fight Messerschmitts, but in Libya the Kittyhawk, with Spitfires, took control of the air and held...
...most plants, slogan contests are being run as an integral part of the committees' work. Samples: "Speed the Wheels to Beat the Heels" (from an American Steel & Wire sloganeer); "Speed 'Em for Freedom" (Curtiss-Wright); "Jappy, We'll Knock You Slap Happy" (Cincinnati's Boye & Emmes Machine Tool...
...Curtiss-Wright in Buffalo last week opened its enormous overhead doors all the way, proudly wheeled out the first of a long line of new Army transports (C-46). Ace Designer George A. Page Jr. planned it for huge capacity (50 or more troops, more than 9½ tons of freight), long range, economy-only two super-powerful engines-and safety. With the Douglas C-54s and Lockheed Constellations, C46 will share the job of quickly shifting United Nations men & machines all over the world (TIME, March 2, April 20). The company figures that 21 of these freighters, each making...