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Easily the top man on the bill was our man Bell, current A-Section Leader. Bell, a New York attorney, demonstrated a mastery of the ad lib racket with a couple of take-offs. Other feature performers included the inimitable Witt, "Orson" Wells, "Red" Pace, Overson, Briggs, Baker, Barker, Bridgeman, and Gress on the blew-harp...
...Proof, you say? Well, let's take that indispensable quantity, conviviality. Not everybody's got conviviality in the Army. Suppose you were manning an AA gun on a dreary building somewhere along Broadway or Fifth Avenue. Or suppose you were one of the lucky privates who beat the Meteorology racket. A guy I know did, and now he's buried away atop an office building on Third Avenue and 42nd Street in N. Y. What kind of conviviality is that...
...Numbers Racket." In this demonstration in combat, the Army Air Forces was quick to see a chance to cut down the complexity of its aircraft equipment, which runs into scores of types with overlapping tactical functions. This airmen call "the numbers racket...
...Principle of Numbers. To avoid "the numbers racket" Army Air Forces made other production changes, discontinued some models, stepped up the building of others, threw new and still secret models into the production works. To do this while keeping production growing, in bulk, called for the continued production of types which had been outmoded by newer models...
...spite of production changes, "the numbers racket" goes on, kept alive by the persistent reaching of designers for better aircraft. U.S. citizens may take comfort from the fact. "The numbers racket" is already winning the war. When war is over and the world is opened to air commerce, it may win the peace...