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...Milwaukee, a Korean war flyer named Paul Poberezny formed the Experimental Aircraft Association for do-it yourself flyers to make their own airplanes. So far, the group has 600 members spread around the U.S. who have flown 500 of their creations. One man is working on a combination plane and car with a pusher propeller and folding wings; another hopes to sell a do-it-yourself small plane...
...took off. But the pilot was unaware that the tail surfaces had a lock to keep them from being buffeted by the wind when on the ground. With the controls locked, the plane took off, lurched over on one wing, crashed and burned. Both Tower and the Army flyer were killed. Boeing collected $350,000 in insurance, but Douglas, with a twin-engined B18 in competition, walked off with the contract for 133 planes. Nevertheless, the Army Air Corps liked the Fortress well enough to order 13 for "service tests." While the plane was proving itself, Boeing's engineers...
...hour, open-hearth laborer, was elected president of National Steel Corp., fifth largest U.S. producer of steel. Millsop left the mills before he was 19 to become a Marine pilot during World War I. After his discharge, he barnstormed the country as a stunt flyer, returned to the steel business and worked his way up from riveter to production manager at Standard Tank Car Co. He was later hired as a salesman for Weirton Steel Co. (a National subsidiary), climbed steadily until he became Weirton's president in 1936. In 1947 Mill-sop helped incorporate Weirton...
Admiral Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, took a flyer into the realm of psychological warfare and gave a Chicago audience his prescription for U.S. relations with oppressed millions behind the Iron Curtain. As authors of the greatest of all revolutions, Carney suggested, Americans are singularly well equipped to preach revolt. Asked the admiral: "Why can't we be the salesmen of human revolt, 'which demonstratively has produced freedom for the individual and . . . standards of life heretofore unknown...
Night courses at Carnegie Tech bring out an inventive flair in Peter and take him away from open hearths and Bessemer converters into the research laboratory. At novel's end, Peter leaves the steel industry, prematurely invents an automatic record-changer and is about to take a flyer in the manufacturing end of the newly born radio industry. Peter Domanig promises to be a Lanny Budd-of-all-trades, and Author White certainly does not intend to cramp his style. He has already announced two forthcoming sequels, Brass and Gold...