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...years Lanchow has meant even more to the "Free China" of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. It is the eastern terminus for the much-needed war supplies that come from the Soviet Union. Instead of the wool, fur, brick tea, vegetable oil and camel hair that used to be the lifeblood of Lanchow's trade, now airplane engines, bombs, ammunition, gasoline, military trucks are the chief commodities. The city is also the concentration point for China's slowly building Air Force. So important a military secret has Lanchow become in the scheme of war that in two years only three...
...will not permit certain individuals to enrich themselves while others give their lifeblood. We are calm and resolved. We are not haunted like our enemies by fear of a long war. We think only of one thing: Complete victory. That victory we will consider won when we can give France the security which Hitler's projects destroyed for three years...
Lest this cut throat competition spill too much of aviation's lifeblood, United's President William Allan Patterson approached T.W.A., American, Pan American and Eastern with a bold proposition: let them finance a common plane that would standardize equipment. Such a plane he foresaw as the DC-4. It would carry 42 passengers, four engines, travel at 240 m.p.h. Six months later the Big Five contracted not to invest in any transport heavier than 43,500 lbs. other than the DC-4. Each company could then be dealt one apiece for as many rounds as they mutually agreed...
...dressing for what is in part, at least, a thoroughly corrupt machine. . . . That politics should be in disrepute in this, the greatest of democratic countries, is a crime against the people. The science of representative government should be, it must become, our most honorable profession. For politics is the lifeblood of democracy...
...tradition, will be inclined to go along with any changes proposed by A. P.'s General Manager and executive boss, crisp Kent Cooper. But few shifts in A. P. setup or policies will be directly traceable to its president. The quality of A. P. news, lifeblood of its service, will continue to be determined by the news-gathering abilities of member papers that provide the bulk of A. P.'s news sources...