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The RFC deal was a five-year lease on 77% of the new plant (rental $649,806 a year), with an option on the other 23% if peacetime production should warrant it. It grooved nicely into Budd postwar plans. Budd's munition-making (8-inch shells, aerial fragmentation bombs...
Building the Bastion. Meanwhile, the Nazis went ahead with preparations for their last stand. In Bolzano and Klagenfurt concentrations of 55 troops were reported, and work was being rushed on fortifications. Hitler's own Berchtesgaden was said to be another strongpoint. According to the stories reaching neutral capitals, the...
Flying over southeast Asia, Major Walter V. Radovich began to think about his 18-months-old son - and also about God. The Major was a crack fighter pilot. He had shot down four Jap planes, had flown through a defile not much wider than his plane's wings to...
News of the "guilty" verdict-in the first such mutiny trial in U.S. Navy history-brought charges from Negroes that Negro sailors were victims of discrimination and a demand for an investigation of circumstances leading up to the case. The 50 had refused and persisted in refusing to load ammunition...
"No thoughtful citizen can read these items without a sinking of the heart. Our militarists who largely control our government are exactly like those of every other country. They are pushing us steadily and inexorably toward a war that nobody wants, a war that would do nobody any good, not...