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Next morning three British motor gunboats-about the same size as the E-boats but slightly slower, more heavily gunned and carrying no torpedoes-caught an E-boat off the German base at Ijmuiden on the Dutch coast and left it sinking. In another engagement a British vessel fought off three E-boats until its ammunition was gone, damaged one, retired. A squadron of Spitfire fighters sighted four E-boats, one of them crippled from a previous clash. The Germans put up a screen of flak, but the British planes dived right through it, opening up with their...
...planning the building, Ford Motor Co.'s drafting room used five miles of blueprint paper a day, seven days a week, for six months...
Detroit v. the Axis. In Manhattan last week some 360 members of the Society of Automotive Engineers inspected the motor of a Nazi twin-engined Junkers bomber shot down over England. They took it apart, put it together again, fiddled with screw drivers and flashlights-and smiled...
...Nazi motor was a designer's dream: the designers had used complicated parts, scarce materials. But by Detroit's notions of mass production it was a little too tricky to be really good: it was a hard motor to put on an assembly line. In making war machines, the Axis had a head start, but Detroit was confident it had a head start in know...
...great-grandfather, but he is still lively, curious and productive. His shoulders are stooped by his years, his neat salt-&-pepper suits hang loosely on his spare limbs. But his body is still tough, his bright eyes dart restlessly as the fingers of a machine. The Ford Motor Co. is, as ever, a one-man show...