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...strike walked the 3,000 production workers of Vultee Aircraft at Downey, Calif. Work on a whacking backlog of $84,000,000 (including orders for $50,000,000 worth of vitally needed Army training planes) was stopped. Left in the factory hangar were 17 completed BT-13 Army planes. On the assembly line were 20 more that would have been finished by week's end. To Downey rushed War Department, National Defense Commission and Labor Department officials to confer with C. I. O. men and Vultee officials about the union's basic demand: an increase in minimum wages...
...week catastrophe struck Guam. Roaring out of the typhoon belt, a big wind sheared overland at 110 miles an hour, wiped out the banana crop. 90% of the coconut crop, all garden crops-chief livelihood of some 20,000 natives-smashed the Pan American Hotel and U. S. Navy hangar, left 40 American families and 15,000 natives homeless. When it was over, Governor McMillin called for Red Cross aid. First reports indicated that the typhoon approached the scale of the great blow of 1900. But that storm cost 20 lives; last week's, none. What damage...
...Perseus had stopped at U. S.-owned Little Diomede Island with a mission: to find out what was afoot on Soviet-owned Big Diomede just one and a half miles away and across the International Date Line (see map). The crew said that Russian workmen were building an airplane hangar on Big Diomede, replacing its radio station with a bigger one, that Big Diomede with its smooth ice runways ten months of the Arctic year, was being made into an advance weather, communications and flying station...
...cannot be learned in occasional nights to Alaska or midwinter operations in Minnesota. This winter, many a service pilot and mechanic who has worked at San Diego and Shreveport will head north to beat new enemies-sudden fogs, icing weather, sub-zero temperatures that make engine-starting tough. New hangar and field equipment will have to be designed and tested, new cold-weather clothing tried out. From now on, Alaska becomes a permanent station of U. S. defense...
...Center mural to Lenin. Last week a similar rumpus flurried up when the figure of Joseph Stalin was discovered in a WPA mural at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. Keeping Stalin company were two little-known Leftist aviators lined up alongside Byrd, Lindbergh, Earhart; a U. S. Navy hangar whose white star insignia had become the red star of the Soviets...