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...warn the welders when Packard officials and air-force inspectors visited the plant. When suspicious Packard officials rejected $130,000 worth of castings and ordered them scrapped-after repeated warnings to National Bronze that defective parts would kill U.S. flyers-the company patched up the parts, changed the serial numbers and shipped them back to Packard as new parts. Some of the castings were so weak they fell apart when touched. The trial brought out greed as the reason for the plot: National Bronze got $270 a Ib. for accepted castings v. only 15? a Ib. for those scrapped...
...rushed back to New York, typed up 13 pages of notes on the train and carried them to the managing editor of Collier's. Collier's gave Captain Lawson $12,000 for first serial rights. Working from 9 a.m. until 3 the next morning, Considine and Lawson put together Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo in six sessions. Lawson made his corrections on the back of each sheet...
...most fashionable women of the time, Irene Castle (when she bobbed her hair, 1,000,000 American women made haste to hang out the shingles of the New Sex), appeared in the Hearst-produced, flag-waving war serial Patria. Another dancer, who took her talents directly into camps, was highbrowed Ruth St. Denis. One of her numbers, called Spirit of Democracy, might serve as a touching, rousing symbol of the whole of entertainment in World War I. It worked up through a lather of militant gestures (bayoneting, grenade-lobbing, etc.) to a disconcerting climax in which a girl in black...
...About half of the serial fans think most soaps interesting, 24% think a few of them are, 2% swear none...
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--More than 400 American and British planes, clamping an serial pincers on the Axis from French Africa and the Middle East, pounded 16 target areas stretching 700 miles from Greece to Sardinia yesterday in what was described officially as a "terrific hammering" of Southern Europe's crumbling invasion defenses...