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Born. To Swingster Benny Goodman, 33, and Alice Hammond Duckworth Goodman, 37: their first child, Rachel; in Los Angeles. Weight: 6 Ib...
...being salvaged. Jorgen D. Bering at Salinas, Calif, is preparing to process some of the 132,000 tons of lettuce culls discarded from the 14,000 carloads of lettuce to be shipped from Salinas this season. After being dried and concentrated, each ton of culls will give 80 Ib. of a protein-rich meal suitable for cattle feed, also for the extraction of vitamin A. The amount of vitamin available from U.S. waste lettuce is close to the entire output of the U.S. fisheries industry, now handicapped...
...Merseburg-323. The ME-323 was developed from designs for a monstrous wooden glider, with a wing span of 180 feet. Six French Gnôme-Rhône engines were added to make a plane that would carry 120 fully equipped soldiers or 20,000 Ib. of freight 450 miles at 140 miles an hour. It has ten half-sunk wheels well forward to prevent nosing over in rough landings, and the front of its fuselage can let down to take in trucks and light tanks. It looks like a boxcar that insists on flying...
...such flexibility of fighter supply, engineers devised a big (165-gallon) plastic tank, attached one to each wing of the Lightning. Weighing 1,000 Ib. when full (90 empty), the tanks are jettisoned when used. Streamlined, they take only 4% off the P-38's top speed, a lower percentage at cruising speeds...
Born. To Signal Corps Private Alan Ladd Jr., 29, peacetime cinema tough guy, and Actor's Agent Sue Carol (real name: Evelyn Lederer), 35: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 Ib. 110z Killed in Action. British Army Captain Glyn David Rhys-Williams, 21, grandson of Novelist Elinor (It) Glyn; in North Africa...