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...again & again. When they left they were certain that it would be a long time before Rostock, staggering under the weight of 800 tons of bombs, would function efficiently as a supply port for the Nazi armies in Norway, Finland and northern Russia. They were certain too that the Heinkel Airplane Works near by, to which they had given special attention, would be out of commission for months...
...British Government found good use last week for the remains of Heinkel bombers shot down by the R.A.F. They were dismantled and sent as spare parts to Turkey, which has tried in vain to get parts from Germany for its German-built bombers. The British also sent two shipments of fighter planes. This was news with a double meaning. All summer long Germany and Britain have been bidding for Turkey's economic, and, by extension, political, favors. Britain evidently thought the bidding was closed, that...
Explosive rivets, developed by Du Pont after the basic invention in 1937 by two employes of famed German Plane Builder Ernst Heinkel. A high explosive nests in a cavity at the headless end of an aluminum-alloy rivet. When heat is applied to the head by an electric riveting gun, the charge explodes at the other end, forms a "blind" head, sets the rivet. Explosive charges can be controlled to adjust the size and shape of the head to within .02 in. This breaks a major plane-building bottleneck: riveting points which can be reached from only one side...
Finally the enemies brushed in Iraq. First-line German planes, Heinkel bombers and Messerschmitt fighters hurried to attack the British at their Habbannia airport. German cadres of officers headed Iraqi troops for new infantry attacks near Basra. The British counter-bombed the Luftwaffe bases. The Fleet Air Arm planes flew 160 miles up the Tigris to bomb oil tanks at Amarah. R.A.F. fliers caught convoys of French motor trucks carrying Arab volunteers from Syria to Iraq...
...evacuees now occupy 31 new national camp schools run by the Government. They live in cedar houses, have plenty of room to play. They learn, besides ABCs, to garden and mend shoes, and they enjoy getting even with unpopular masters by calling them such names as "Old Heinkel" and "Dive-Bombing Smith." Each camp (enrollment: about 250) costs around $150,000 to build and $30,000 a year to run. So popular are they that the Government indicated they might be continued after...