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...Force in China was still pitifully small-a few fighters, fewer bombers. Most of the fields painfully prepared by the patient Chinese were still idle; some had been taken by the Jap. But the Air Force was at work. What it had accomplished under the command of seam-faced Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault made the Chinese feel warm all over...
...Army began moving in on the A.V.G. All the signs were that Chiang Kai-shek's light-hearted mercenaries of deadly aim would soon be back in Federal service like their seam-faced leader Claire L. Chennault, recently taken off the retired list and made a Brigadier General. (The Navy and Marine Corps had a claim to some of them too; as many had been trained at Pensacola as at Randolph Field...
...Guesser most interested in the fate of German subs in Yankee waters is thin-lipped, seam-faced, British-hating Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz, creator and Commander of Germany's U-boat fleet...
...welding arc that if it is held more than an instant on one spot, it will eat a hole through a thick steel plate. With his brilliant sputtering arc always in motion, a masked welder "knits" a seam by laying molten steel deposits endlessly atop each other...
...other project: a technique (seam welding and gang riveting) which would make possible the mass production of airplane fuselages. At Ypsilanti the building where Ford will turn out centre sections for Consolidated and Douglas bombers on an assembly line was almost finished. According to big, leathery Charles Sorensen, chief Ford production man, the aircraft industry has done the development job, the production job is now up to the automakers, who understand how to work out the integration and flow of materials for volume output...