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Author de Seversky pregnantly observes that already big, experimental bombers like the Big and the Martin Mars can carry 18 tons of bombs nearly 8,000 miles. He charges that the U.S. would now- in 1942 -have great fleets of such bombers, able to assault Japan from Alaskan bases, if...
Even to such hard-boiled dreamers as the aviation engineers, this prediction was a jolt. The world's two biggest planes -the Army's much-touted Douglas Big bomber and Martin's own flying boat Mars-both tip the scales at 140,000 Ib. Any plane two...
Big Red has money in his genes. Having a mare served by him costs the mare's owner $5,000, although occasionally Mr. Riddle, for the good of racing, waives the stud fee for poor owners of mares with fine strains. Through 1941 he has sired 335 registered foals...
Author Tomlinson (The Sea and the Jungle, Gallions Reach) is a writer with a very simple mind, almost tactile vision, and a somewhat self-conscious style that is widely considered good prose. A brilliant war correspondent in 1914-17, he grew to hate war so bitterly that he wrote Mars...
The twelve essays in The Wind is Rising, covering the twelve grimmest months in the bloody biennium from August 1939 to August 1941, chart the wavering course of Tomlinson's adjustment to the fact that this war is different. He writes: "I still think war an obscene outrage on...