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...Arizona one shaft of Phelps Dodge's Bisbee mine is short 200 men out of 450; the Miami-Globe copper-mining area needs 500 more men right away. Idaho, close to high-pay aircraft and shipbuilding jobs, needs 500-1,000 men more...
...World War II, the product of Franz Halder's planning has always been a thunderbolt-the lightning that withered Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, the shaft that staggered Russia last year. Thunderbolts should strike on time. Hitler's time in Russia-his only time-is now. The world has a right to expect something terrific. If it should not strike, if it should not be terrific, then history will also be made. For then the Nazi war machine is in trouble and its days of glory are numbered...
...Maintaining industrial equipment. One massive 9½-ft., 2,400-lb. Diesel crankshaft was worn at its bearing points. Wartime replacement was impossible; in any case, would have taken twelve weeks. A hot-metal sprayer, using 45 lb. of steel wire, resurfaced the worn shaft in ten hours...
...Spear & Shaft. The spearpoint of U.S. Naval effort in the Pacific is the Asiatic Fleet based on Manila. The shaft of the spear is the line between the Philippines and Honolulu. The fist that wields the spear is Admiral Kimmel's fleet, based among the naval shops and the complicated waterways of Pearl Harbor. As long as the Navy could maintain this base, the spear could strike where it was aimed in the Far East. So strategists, thinking of the shaft in terms of the supply it must carry, called it the lifeline of the Pacific...
...Northrop's account, all her virtues are usable in a bigger design. Biggest of all virtues is that the flying wing, shedding her tail, has some 40% less wind resistance than a normal design. Her pilot and engine are buried in her thick wing. Except for her propeller-shaft housings, every square inch of her body goes into lift. Thanks to this economy, the Northrop's design can get the same speed with half the horsepower of conventional planes, or with the same horsepower can turn out 25-30% more speed. It is also lighter, less complicated than...