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...First downs 15 22 Yds. gained rushing, not 133 243 Passes attempted 22 18 Passes completed 9 11 Yards by passes 158 188 Passes intercepted by 2 2 Punt Average 39 27 Total yds. all kicks ret. 158 75 Opponent fumbles recov. 0 1 Yds. lost by penalties...
...Navy's Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, ret. (famous for his wartime broadcasts to Japan), who likes to make people's flesh creep, last week did it again. He reminded the U.S. that its top military men were anything but complacent over "absolute weapons."* In the United Nations World, Zacharias wrote of new non-atomic weapons "that could wipe out the last vestige of human, animal and vegetable life." And then he added: "They are not an American monopoly. Several nations are known to have them, to be making them, and to be improving them. Furthermore, unlike...
...only to planemakers, but to everyone in the U.S. The aircraft industry, along with air transport and foreign air routes, was a major instrument of U.S. foreign policy, U.S. defense. Yet plane production has withered away until the current annual rate is only 1,370 planes. Major General (ret.) Oliver P. Echols, president of the Aircraft Industries Association, told the commission that it would be "impossible to provide the 6,000 to 10,000 planes necessary to bring the air forces up to operational [i.e., minimum fighting] level within any period of time strategic considerations might allow." What the industry...
Also in Chicago, Texas' General Jonathan Wainwright (ret.) simultaneously denied that he knew of any draft-Wainwright-for-the-Senate movement and declared that he would be happy...
Died. Lieut. General Ross Erastus Rowell (ret.), 62, Marine Corps aviator, credited as originator of dive-bombing tactics; of coronary thrombosis; in San Diego, Calif. During the 1927 Nicaraguan uprising, an outpost of U.S. Marines was surrounded by 600 rebels; Rowell loaded up his De Havilland biplanes with 17-lb. bombs, pinpointed them by diving at the target, routed the enemy. He later demonstrated his technique at the 1932 Cleveland Air Races. Looking on: Luftwaffe Colonel General Ernst Udet, who commented: "We ought to try it in Germany." They did. Result: the famed Stukas...