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...substitute for soup," i.e., horsepower. In soup the new radials were ahead of the Allison by close to 2-to-1, even when the Allison was putting out its full power. Excess power means not only more speed, but better climb, higher service ceiling, more ability to lug the heavy armament load needed in modern fighters...
...especially anomalous in Air Corps and mechanized outfits. Last week, having ruled out boots and spurs for motorized soldiers, the Army decided to throw out the sabre too. Also on the way out, the War Department announced, is the shiny Sam Browne belt, essentially designed to let an officer lug a sabre around without disarranging his waist belt. From now on the Sam Browne will be worn only with the blouse, and without arms-in other words, only when an officer is spruced up for dances, or trips to town...
Their obvious use would be in night bombing raids. For that job they carry the wickedest slug in the air. A fully loaded B-17 carries five tons of bombs in its belly, can lug them in any size, from 100 to 2,000 pounds. Its prodigious cruising range with full load is 3,000 miles; it can go out 1,200 miles and return, with 20% reserve in fuel. Operating from Britain, with tanks only half full, B-17s could bomb Berlin. With full tanks they could reach the great armament plants in Prague, mess up the vast...
...conspiracy, was never tried. He has been Superintendent of Sewers three years, gets $6,000 a year. Says contented Tom Garry: "People in politics are the biggest chumps in the world. Only one out of 20,000 makes a living out of it. I'm just an ordinary lug who loves the game of politics." Tom Garry has a comfortable apartment on Chicago's West Side, a wife, four daughters (three are married). His great day last week was also Mrs. Garry's birthday, the first in 33 years when he had failed to give...
...Angeles, film society held war relief auctions. In San Francisco Elsa Maxwell gave a party, plugging Foyers du Soldat, incidentally plugging her motion picture The Lady and the Lug. Cinemactresses Constance Bennett, Dolores del Rio, Claudette Colbert were caught by an indiscreet cameraman, sorting old clothes...