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...This is for that legion of downy-faced kids, embryo 'whitecollar' workers, who were sitting around every office in New York about a year...
Said the usually staid Morning Post: "Sir Stafford Cripps, known abroad as Sir Scrapps, among his friends as Scrappy, among his opponents as Stiffy, and among an ungrateful proletariat as Gripes, is an embryo-dictator...
...present Fortress is such a plane in embryo. But it is only the forerunner. The 1943 planes will have bigger bomb loads (probably ten tons or better), longer ranges, even more anti-fighter fire power. It was to such planes that President Roosevelt referred in part last week when he announced a revision of the U.S. aircraft program. The bulk of U.S. bomber production next year will probably still be in planes like the Fortress and Liberator, but newer types should be going into service before summer...
...paratroops, glider squadrons, armored army-within-an-army, are new on the U.S. scene (and newer, perhaps, than they need have been if the Army's pre-1940 command had not been approximately as sleepy as the country was). It is an army created with phenomenal speed from the embryo Regular Army...
...most obvious answer was that embryo airmen are all thumbs, that inexperience takes toll. But it was not that simple. Graduates of advanced training schools had their troubles...