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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week an official announcement said that Colonel General Ernst Udet, Quartermaster of the German Air Force, was killed "yesterday" (Nov. 17) while testing "a new type of firearm." The same day the Berlin radio attributed his death to an "airplane accident on Monday, the eleventh," said he died en route to a hospital. Reports from Vichy said he was a suicide. Many a U.S. airman and war veteran could recall Ernst Udet as a stumpy, laughing, likeable little man with a thirst for beer and information, a man of many questions who carefully avoided questioners. The last photograph...
...plane at Santiago airport one day last week stepped Brazil's smart, dapper Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, all primed to talk commercial treaties. He had left Rio expecting to confer with President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, had learned of Don Tinto's temporary retirement (TIME, Nov. 17) while en route...
...happiest," says Chamberlin, "and certainly the most creative in the history of Europe." The sense of irrationality is all the greater because this civilization did not decay like Rome or Byzantium by agelong stages of dry rot, but apparently cracked up suddenly and catastrophically, like an incomparable machine shak en to pieces by the super-power of its own superb engines...
Across the yard is ranked another group of giants, massive of hull, with long, tapering, twin-ruddered tails. These are Consolidated's big boats-PB2Ys, four-en-gined big brothers of the two-engined PBYs. Like everything else Rube Fleet turns out, they are built to Fleet's most important hallmark: long range. These giants, designed for naval patrol, can travel 5,200 miles-possibly more-on a single load of gas. They can cruise at 170 m.p.h. on 45% of the power of their four Pratt & Whitney 1,200-h.p. engines...
...reporters in a fast five-hour tour of United Aircraft Corp. plant in East Hartford. She got a permanent. Son of a famous stamp collector, he disclosed he had no collection of his own, explained: "I couldn't see the sense of having two collections in one family." En route to a weekend in New Jersey they discovered valet, maid and all their baggage were missing. The servants turned up two hours late, explained they had got lost...