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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over water, in cold and forbidding weather. In the Solomons operations are in stifling heat and drenching rains. In Australia and New Guinea a given aircraft in a single day may fly from subtropical temperatures to the chill of early spring. It is proof of the soundness of U.S. design and the versatility of American crews that operations...
...only liquid-cooled engine of American design now in mass production and general military use is the Allison. This engine drives the P-38, the P39 and the P-40. Its development was late in starting and was carried on under great difficulties. It has not yet caught up with its opposite numbers, Britain's Rolls-Royce (also being manufactured in this country) and Germany's Daimler-Benz...
...which furnishes sea-level pressures to the carburetion system far beyond the altitude range of the integral supercharger. An exclusively American development, it gave great altitude performance . . . in bombers and in the larger fighters. But in the smaller fighters which the Allison was to power, its incorporation in the design of the airplane proved, for that day, impossible...
Among the famed U.S. structures Cram designed or helped design are Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at West Point and Princeton University, Pittsburgh's $4,000,000 East Liberty Presbyterian Church, the great dining hall at Notre Dame University. Called in at the time the original designer of St. John's, Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, stepped out, Cram scrapped La Farge's Romanesque-Byzantine plans, redesigned the cathedral in Gothic. Manhattan's Christ Church (Methodist) he made Byzantine, because that effete style struck him as appropriate to its location...
...commission, he will have to lodge a lot of others in the same bed with him. E. V. Rickenbacker, leading U.S. ace in World War I, said early this month during a tour of air combat training centers that the U.S. was superior both in aircraft production and design. Secretary Stimson refrained from commenting on "the reported inferiority of our planes because I have been waiting for a well-founded complaint." Two Army majors sagely told the Society of Automotive Engineers in New York that while "it may be admitted that for altitude work we have not yet been able...