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Based on B-29 design, the Stratocruiser's two-decked, double fuselage, looking in cross section like a cigar atop a stogie, is fatter and longer than that of the B29, although the wing spread is the same. As an all-cargo Army plane, it will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge...
Along the highway are blocks of warehouses for storing spare parts; machine shops with facilities to repair or install medium-caliber guns ; an automotive over haul plant which recovers thousands of vehicles from the scrap heap; acres of tank farms (depots); acres of under ground ammunition storage depots; refrigerators for meat, vegetables, fruit to supply the fleet. Now abuilding is a bottling plant with a capacity of 500 cases of soft drinks an hour...
...thirds of U.S. phonograph records, have refused to pay Petrillo's union a tribute for each record-which for the entire industry would total from $500,000 to $3,000,000 a year to the union treasury.) Some Republicans howled that the President sent troops in to haul out obstinate employers, but was humble before Labor Boss Petrillo. Some suspected that Mr. Roosevelt was readying up a crackdown on Mr. Petrillo, to show that the White House could be tough with labor...
...Haul. Hidden under the edge of a typhoon, the fleet bored in. Halsey sent only part of his forces on the deepest mission-to the Ryukyus, 270 miles south of Japan. Hellcats, Avengers and Hell-divers from Mitscher's carriers thundered across the islands in four heavy strikes-1,500 sorties...
Manna. In Oklahoma City, police spent a day counting a haul of seized whiskey, broke 158 pints, which leaked through the floor to eager collectors in the jail below...