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With war's spread cutting down the number of lands visited by U. S. vessels, European mail to and from the U. S. has piled up. To help lug it, Pan Am this week will step up its transatlantic service (New York to Lisbon) from two to three runs a week. Bolstered by an extra plane crew, transatlantic pilots, radiomen, mechanics will lie over between trips at Lisbon, may there hobnob with British, French and Italian airline men, all operating across Europe from neutral Portugal...
William Gropper was born 42 years ago on Manhattan's lower East Side, on his way to school used to lug to a sweatshop the bundles of piecework sewing his mother did at home. Later he worked in a clothing store at $5 a week, took night art classes till he got his job on the Tribune. In Cropper's phrase he "fired the Tribune" after his I. W. W. conversion, became successively a labor organizer, oiler on a freight boat, itinerant sign painter...
Great Britain's famed, red-haired racer and designer, Hubert Scott-Paine, last September demonstrated a 70-foot, triple-engined mosquito which could lug two torpedo tubes, two guns, a crew of 16, at 47 knots (54.1 miles) per hour-well above the best speeds expected from the U. S. boats still abuilding. For eleven mosquitoes and twelve subchasers based on "Ginger Dick" Scott-Paine's designs, the Navy last week let a $5,000,000 contract to the Electric Boat Co., which makes most of the Navy's submarines. When these and the twelve...
...damage; other planes simply find and clear the way. Main requirements of bombers are speed, range, capacity. Germany's Dornier Do. 17 and Heinkel He. 111 combine these talents admirably. The slender Do. 17, equipped with two liquid-cooled, streamlined, inverted-V Daimler-Benz engines, can lug one ton of bombs 1,500 miles at nearly 300 miles an hour; and the Heinkel, produced at Germany's model factory at Oranienburg (where duplicate machinery is set up underground, where workers live like prep-school boys), can carry the same load almost as fast and a little farther...
Next thing Louisiana knew, Dr. & Mrs. Smith had turned up at Brockville, Ont., and State and local authorities were tumbling over themselves for the glory of bringing back the fugitives. Dr. Smith in his hey-heyday had bought a $20,000 plane wherein to lug promising athletes to L. S. U. and on week-end pleasure trips This was the craft in which L. S. U.'s president was to be flown home to face charges. Inasmuch as the flying "football beef" (as the students called it) had only four seats and required a pilot, only one officer could...