Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific, rationed and ammunitioned for long-range action. Japan's officialdom appeared touched. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita made agreeable sounds to the effect that Japan's partnership in the Berlin-Rome axis was for purely anti-Communist reasons: Japan wanted no part in attacking the Democracies (see p...
...experimental centre at Wright Field, and two fighting-plane factories at Buffalo.* He flew on to analyze the Indianapolis plant of Allison Engineering Co., which thereupon announced that it was tripling its capacity and planning to produce a revolutionary, 2,400-h.p. in-line engine for the Army (see p...
...Curtiss-Wright for 400 P-40 all-metal pursuits, to be powered with Allison engines. Reported speed: well above 400 m.p.h. >$2,880,000 to Consolidated (whose huge flying boats are U. S. Navy favorites) for four four-engined bombers, reportedly able to fly 280 m.p.h., carry 2,500 lbs. of bombs...
...when he has the chance (although always an infantryman), devours history and biography. He loathes big Army parties, prefers to go picnicking with his second wife and her children. On duty he is severe, demands top-flight work in short hours. "Nobody ever has an original thought after 3 p. m.," he says...
...York's glamorous young Tom Dewey, currently conceded the lead for the G. 0. P.'s top nomination in 1940,has carefully refrained-while hobnobbing diligently in private with influential people from all over-from making a national speech on national issues. He and his friends know well that he is already well-known from coast to coast, by name & fame if not in inner structure. Had they needed proof of this, the University of Illinois last week supplied it. A board of politically-uninfected faculty members awarded to Tom Dewey, for "enrichment of American life and welfare...