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...this difference: i) The Lockheed P-38 is a much bigger (11,171 lb. unloaded, compared to the Hurricane's 4,670 lb.) and faster (404 m.p.h. to 335 m.p.h.) plane; 2) it has two Allison engines instead of the Hurricane's single, less expensive Rolls Royce Merlin; 3) it has not yet gone into mass production; 4) in Britain the average weekly wage for aircraft workers is about $20, in the U. S. about...
...Only high-powered (1,000 h.p.) U. S. liquid-cooled engine, the Allison is the U. S. Army Air Corps's one present hope for building airplanes around slim, streamlinable power plants. It will continue to be the only hope until another, possibly the Rolls-Royce Merlin (TIME, July 15), is put into production in a U. S. factory. Last week Allison's production was reputedly rising from a monthly rate of about 30 to its fall quota of 125. It still had a long way to go to its estimated production top, 500-600 a month...
...ahead to tackle the job. In Michigan he had 300 men at work. One group of them was designing motors-not only a new liquid-cooled airplane engine of Ford design, but also improvements on the Rolls-Royce. (In Britain the Ford factory has been busy manufacturing Rolls-Royce Merlin engines for British Spitfires and Hurricanes.) More than that, his men were busy consulting with airplane experts, notably Colonel Lindbergh, on building planes as well as engines. The Administration might count him out, but Henry Ford, ever an individualist, was driving right ahead-just as if an order...
Last week, however, Manager Vitt had more respect for the Merlin of Monessen...
Completing the exhibit from Harvard's own collection are the original drafts of E. A. Robinson's "Merlin," of "The Hamlet of Archibald MacLeish," by MacLeish, and of "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," by Keats...