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...opening night, Mike Todd, as much a man of the theatre as Noel Coward or George M. Cohan, seemed intent on finding that elusive something that will turn a rambling Hayride into a non-stop express for Broadway's Hall of Fame. Condensation and a half-hour's worth of sock comedy material should do the trick...
...only limit is [the airlines'] ability to expand." Biggest immediate addition will be scores of sturdy, twin-engined Douglas DC-35, now rolling off California production lines at a record clip. Next will come giant 25-ton Douglas DC-45, able to tote a ten-ton payload non-stop for 2,200 miles. For the rest of the fleet the Army will lend the airlines huge newfangled Curtiss Commando transports and big-bellied Consolidated 6-24 bombers converted into cargo planes...
Today F.O. flies its boats non-stop from San Diego to Ottawa, and what is more, sets them down on the river with enough gas still in the tanks to swing south and reach Miami. F.O. ferries red-tailed PBYs across the Pacific to the Dutch in The Netherlands East Indies, crosses Pan Am's route to Pearl Harbor with U.S. deliveries...
...Javelin, was torpedoed in a Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son Chiang Wei-kuo. . . .Earthbound as a Home Guard battalion commander was Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, co-hero of the first non-stop flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 with Sir John Alcock...
Theoretically outmoded U.S. planes (example: the Douglas B-18A bomber) now make ten-and twelve-hour flights, hop non-stop from Miami or Texas to the Zone. Pan American Clippers do it in six and a half hours. Existing bombers could, if pushed to the extreme, fly from French Dakar to the Canal Zone. Air power has thus completely revised all theories of the defense of the Canal. The only military solution: defensive air and naval power, based as far as possible from the Canal itself, as near as possible to the starting points of enemy attack...