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...famed outfield has been hitting a piddling .249. Nevertheless, last week the Bombers were leading the American League by seven and a half games. The player they could thank for this was right-handed Pitcher Ernie Bonham, called Tiny because he stands 6 ft. 2 in., weighs 215 Ib. Last week Tiny chalked up his seventh victory in a row-four of them shutouts...
Trussed up like a shoat bound for market, a Curtiss Kittihawk fighter plane spewed bullets into a wood and earth bunker at Buffalo. In the Army's first public demonstration of warplane firepower since Pearl Harbor, the gas-pipe-like guns threw more than 387 Ib. of lead and armor-piercing steel per minute, clattering like a dozen riveting hammers inside a caisson...
Rough comparisons were available, War-hawk's striking power will be much greater than the Kittihawk's six 50-caliber (half-inch) guns. ME 100-F1, one of the most recent Nazi Messerschmitts, shoots 265 Ib. of metal and explosive a minute from two 311-caliber guns and a 15-mm. cannon; the new British Hurricane 2-B sprays 330 Ib. of twelve .30 or .303 caliber; the new Hurricane 2-C, 600 Ib. from four 20-mm. cannon...
Scheduled to appear about a year after war's end, the new cars will be streamlined into ladybug-like lumps. Using aluminum, magnesium, other featherweight metals, they will weigh 1,200 Ib. (v. 2,700 to 4,200 Ib. now). Aviation gas (100 octane) will power lightweight engines, mounted in the rear. Wheels will be smaller (13 in. and less) to save rubber, permit a lower center of gravity. Bodies will be of plastic, tops will be of transparent plastic such as is now used on bomber noses. Best feature of all: prices...
...head weighs 26 Ib.-3½ lb. less than the old-bringing the pound-horsepower ratio down to less than one-for-one for the first time in aircraft-engine history. Skilled manpower is saved; eight unskilled boys do work previously assigned to 150 technicians. Finally, the hydraulic press, one of the few large automotive-industry tools convertible to aircraft making, is tailor-made for the forging...