Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Health last month started a campaign to revive a pre-World War I product of the German colonies in Africa: dried banana loaves. The fully ripened bananas are dried on the plantation, pressed into 100-lb. blocks to be shipped in bulk with a 90% saving in load space, no loss by spoilage...
Thus an added load solved a supply problem. But it made another. The lone pilot of a P-38 has no room, no instruments and no time for over-water navigation. For that problem, the Army's solution was simple. To all ocean flights of Lockheeds a Flying Fortress is assigned to shepherd its flock to the other side...
Meanwhile, at Escanaba, Mich., ore piled up from rail deliveries across the tip of Wisconsin. Freighter captains cursed. Fifteen ore boats nudged each other in the two-dock harbor which can load only six at a time. Escanaba had more than the weather to complain about: only recently WPB stopped work on a $58,000,000 War Department program to enlarge Escanaba loading facilities, and to provide a large-scale alternative route in case bombs or sabotage knocked...
...pesky wallaby (small kangaroo) ran in front of his Hying Fortress as it took off, broke a hydraulic line on the landing gear. Flames from the exhaust fired the fluid. In a few seconds, the fire set off the bomb load and all on board were killed...
...years ago on heavy bombers. So there is more doing in the U.S. dive-bombing field than the conversion of fighters to double duty. To supersede the SBD, both Douglas and Curtiss are building specialized dive-bombring aircraft, with less speed than fighters, but more range, more load. And over areas where U.S. seamen or soldiers fight, dive-bombers will still come howling down...