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...heart of Japan through offensive operations is from China. If we had an ample supply of airplane fuel inside China, we could really put on an offensive. . . . Now, why not lay a pipeline from some East Indian port overland to Chungking or some suitable base, and pipe the fuel in ? ... A five-or six-inch pipe could carry a lot of fuel. The line would not have to be buried, just follow the contour of the ground, up valleys, along ridges, etc. The pipe should be available from the iron foundries of India...
...Hollywood Commandos." But musicians concede that the star-studded 51-piece Army Air Force Orchestra of Santa Ana, Calif, is undoubtedly the fanciest outfit in the history of U.S. popular music.* Hollywood agents divide their time between deploring its competition and their inability to hire it. Under onetime pipe-organist Major Eddie Dunstedter, it plays only for Uncle...
Dream Fulfilled. The day of world air transport is no longer a pipe dream. It is here. There is not a meridian on the earth's fat face that freighters and passenger aircraft do not cross. There are few latitudes where they do not operate, none where they cannot. Yet the day of air transport is only dawning. New aircraft with vastly increased loads and ranges (up to 10,000 miles) are all but ready to fly. Behind them, far past the planning stage, are larger craft still. And following them are new technologies that will increase ranges...
...Troubles. Ever since the first contract was signed, there has been plenty of hell but little production around Permanente. Hundreds of construction workers jostled with hundreds of production employes trying to handle highly explosive magnesium dust. Once a conveyor pipe broke and caused an explosion which killed a few workers; again careless builders hooked on to a hydrogen line instead of an air hose, blew themselves skyhigh. Atop everything else, the newly designed three-story electric furnaces were constantly on the blink because the terrific heat (4,000° F.) melted vital parts...
Thus, early one morning last week, the world's biggest (24-inch) oil pipeline was finished-550 miles from Longview, Tex. to Norris City, Ill. It had been a mean, dirty, backbreaking, six-month job. But the thousands of men who had dug the ditch and laid the pipe and swabbed its insides clean had given the pipe an affectionate name-the "Big Inch...