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Transportation: Trucks and other motor transport were lagging. "Certain design problems" were still holding up large-scale armored-car deliveries...
...engineers are already eying the huge air-cooled motor for an added 300-400 h.p., to get both faster climb and top speeds not far below 500 m.p.h. If that happens, says one British expert on both planes and understatement, the result will be "quite startling...
...wholly satisfied. That is one reason why other theaters have yet to report the Thunderbolt in action. It is not as good at dog-fighting as the Spitfire IX, its range is limited, its rate of climb is slow. But engineers are already eying the huge air-cooled motor for an added 300- 400 h.p., to get both faster climb and top speeds not far below 500 m.p.h. If that happens, says one British expert on both planes and understatement, the result will be "quite startling...
When Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s U.S. Seventh Army splashed up the beaches of Sicily, the innards of much of its motor equipment were protected from the sea with a thick, gummy substance that was the result of a near-miracle of production back home. Last week Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) proudly let the miracle...
...Example: the committee praised the successful cargo-carrying C-46, Curtiss-Wright's outstanding plane contribution to the war. (At week's end, in Trenton, N.J., the U.S. Justice Department sued Wright and eight of its officers for damages, accusing them of selling the Government "unsatisfactory" airplane motor materials...