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...present ratios of aircraft with the Fleets, plane deliveries and increases in pilot personnel will soon outstrip the surface Navy. Admiral Towers knows what to do with the excess planes and pilots: create complete reserve crews and squadrons. Flying boats stay in the air as long as 30 hours, fly 4,000 miles and more on single hops. Back at their bases, refueled and checked, the planes are ready to go again before their tuckered-out crews are rested. Admiral Towers would like to have two and even three crews for each boat. Similarly, he wants to have complete reserve...
Lightbody, winning two events, ran the quarter in 49.2 seconds. His time of 1 minute 58 seconds in the half-mile run to complete the double was good enough to outstrip his rivals by five yards...
...next few months-probably until next spring or early summer-the Reich may well lengthen her lead. . . . After that time the Allies, aided by large purchases from the United States, should gradually overtake the German lead and eventually-perhaps by the fall of 1940 or the spring of 1941-outstrip Germany in quantitative production...
...House of Representatives for months a great race has been quietly but breathlessly going on between two committees. The contest is to see who can outstrip whom in helping The Veteran help himself to the U. S. Treasury. The committees: 1) Pensions, headed by South Carolina's Allard Henry Casque (pronounced Gaski), whose own military experience is limited to honorary membership in the United Spanish War Veterans, and 2) the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, whose chairman is Mississippi's loud, bushy-haired John Elliott Rankin. Congressman Rankin lists himself in his official biography...
...recent years was that for the late great Robert Marion La Follette in 1924 when that Wisconsin Senator came within an ace of polling 5,000,000 ballots. Though Unionist Lemke really cannot hope to equal that record, he does, on the basis of straw polls, expect to outstrip every other third-party man in next week's election...