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Built on Long Island, the Thunderbolt is a lineal descendant of "Sascha" Seversky's P35 pursuit ship of 1937. Before the big rush of U.S. rearmament, Seversky's stockholders kicked out their mercurial president, thoroughly reorganized the company. But when the heat was really put on by the U.S. Army Air Forces last May, Republic Aviation Corp. (the new name) decided that it needed a big-league production man at its controls...
Last week in London Lord Beaverbrook made an announcement that many a U.S. airman had been waiting to hear. British designers, working under the drive of war, had finally produced an airplane that could do an honest 400-plus m.p.h. under service conditions. Its name: the Hawker Typhoon, lineal descendant of Britain's famed Hawker Hurricane. Beyond the fact that apparently the Luftwaffe has nothing like it, what interested many an airman most was Lord Beaverbrook's description of its engine. To drive the Ty phoon past the 400-m.p.h. mark the Napier engine company had turned...
...grave-faced Emperor Hirohito last week wrapped himself in a silken robe embroidered with the sacred Paulownia blossom and stepped into the innermost sanctuary of the Imperial Palace to worship his mythological ancestress, the Sun Goddess, celebrating the ascension to the throne 2,601 years ago of his lineal ancestor, the great Emperor Jimmu. Aside from the fact, of no great importance, that there is no historical evidence that Jimmu ever existed, there was a striking difference between the two ceremonies 2.601 years apart: whereas Jimmu had given thanks to the Sun Goddess after his conquest of Central Japan, Hirohito...
Such questions were part of Army's new General Classification Test, streamlined lineal descendant of the World War I "Alpha" test, intended to help weed out hopeless misfits, keep pastry cooks from being assigned to blacksmithing duties or vice versa, bring to light bright boys who might make good officers...
...welcomed to bomb-peppered Hankow last week his highly-revered young relative, Duke Kung, the handsome head of the House of Kung, which is revered because it descends from China's greatest sage, Confucius (Kung Fu-tze, died 478 B. C.), of whom Duke Kung is the 76th lineal descendant...