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...first rumor to get around was that Wendell Willkie was just a super-hawker who had sold the Republican Convention a bill of goods. Last week, spreading rapidly through professional ranks was the belief that maybe Willkie was only a fatter, louder Alf Landon. When was he going to settle down and tend to his muttons-to winning an election for the Republican Party? Groaning Republicans saw Franklin Roosevelt, looking as insouciant as a gambler with a sure thing, planted before a backdrop of big guns, while Vice-Presidential Candidate Wallace anointed him the only true St. George. In Washington...
Outwardly enthusiastic was Britain's Air Secretary as he solemnly announced that Allied production of war planes was now greater than Germany's, that output of the R.A.F.'s snappy first-line pursuit jobs -the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane - had been doubled in the past six months, while production of heavy bombers had increased...
...whole war at 52 warplanes lost by Great Britain to 20 by Germany and boasted that Messerschmitts had overcome the French Morane-Saulnier fighters. Britain claimed that 125 Nazi warplanes of all types had been shot down, and had reason to believe that British Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes (capable of 335 m. p. h. and firing eight machine guns from their wings' leading edge) were up to anything Germany could trot...
...will get this part at home in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain.) They know that now when they come out full-fledged, they will be given the best ships to fly that money can buy. Especially in fighters, Britain is satisfied that she is the Nazis' match, her Hawker Hurricanes being nearly as fast and twice as manageable as Germany's celebrated Messerschmitts...
...Britain has two magnificent fighters, the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire. These planes are both called interceptors. Their talent is getting up 10,000 feet in 4.8 minutes-to stop bombers. The Spitfire can go over 350 m.p.h. and does its spitting from eight Browning guns. If defensive flying can succeed, these two models...