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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silent Flight. Somewhere above 1,000 ft., gliders are turned loose to soar, dropping a wing to lose altitude quickly, gliding downward to gain speed (which may reach 90 m.p.h.), or "picking up a thermal" to rise. Sometimes they even fly in formation. Another man-made addition to flight skill is the complete loop-the-loop, as exciting in a glider as in the oldtime barnstormers' crates. (Two pilots practicing a dog fight at Twentynine Palms -not a usual glider function -crashed and were killed when their wings touched.) A glider pilot, landing, keeps his plane balancing...
...power production, TIME'S Index rose to 174.6 (estimated) in the week of June 20, 0.6 point above the preceding week's final figure. Booming aircraft, ship and chemical plants in the Southern States pushed power output 18.8% over a year ago; on the Pacific Coast the gain was 17%. The U.S. total was up 11.7%. Steel production held close to capacity, although steelmakers said another scrap pinch was on the way. Carloadings dipped because of sharp declines in ore and lumber shipments...
...reference to advancing Nazi forces, finally the outright statement from Moscow that the Germans had the advantage in numbers of men, tanks, planes. Thus Berlin, was probably telling the truth in a communique claiming the recapture of a, bridgehead between the Donets River and Kharkov—the one tangible gain which the Russians held after their May offensive waned...
...details of two U.S. victories—the Battle of the Coral Sea, May 4 to 8, and the Battle of Midway, June 3 to 7 threw much light on the current balance of gain & loss in the Pacific. Tales of U.S. skill, heroism and success also provided the first clear look at naval warfare, 1942 style...
...increases were already in effect, their compensating freight-rate boost not until March 18. Combined profits of all Class I roads were $149,000,000-almost double last year's $76,299,000. In April, when last year's net was cut by the coal strike, the gain was even more dramatic: $57,900,000 for 1942, against...