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...reason why U. S. aircraft cannot be mass-produced is that airplanes and their engines are still largely hand-built, precision jobs. Last week an airplane designed for mass production with a minimum of handwork was flown in California. It was Timm Aircraft Corp.'s blue-&-gold plastic plane-with wings and fuselage pressure-molded from thin spruce plywood and liquid plastic (like the bakelite of radio panels), then baked in an oven. Test Pilot Vance Breese (who has designed and produced another plastic model) put Timm's plane through its paces, convinced at least one Army observer...
...everything. His impressively good clothes, grey hair, dark mustache, lithe frame support a slightly British aura of raj, accompanied by a Yankee capacity for work. He drives his embassy staff seven hours a day (a frightful stint for the Foreign Service). Many an Ambassador lets his staff do the handwork. Joe Grew peck-types his own reports, producing documents highly respected at the State Department and the White House...
Could so forget his handwork on which...
...rhetoric went a plan. All industry was to be divided into a dozen groups: 1) mining and rough metals; 2) machinery and electrical goods; 3) iron and other metal products; 4) building materials, glass and pottery; 5) chemicals, oils and paper; 6) leather, textiles and clothing; 7) food; 8) handwork; 9) commerce; 10) banking; 11) insurance; 12) transportation. Each group will have a leader, not elected by the industry, but chosen by Nazi authorities. Appointed chief leader last week was one Philip Kessler, director of Bergmann Electric Co. and almost unknown even in Germany outside his own industry. The German...
...largely to Publisher Motoyama's pioneering, there is little essential difference. Even Mutt & Jeff, Min & Andy Gump, Smitty, Jiggs & Maggie hurl pots and tongue-lash each other in Japanese. One printing handicap the Japanese have been unable to overcome-lack of a simplified alphabet. Ideographs necessitate much handwork. A picturesque oldtime method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions of Mainichi and Nichi-Nichi in Japanese, Motoyama published a daily Mainichi in English, made it the largest newspaper in that...