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...elected next fall, New Jersey's ruddy, sleek Senator William H. Smathers must have the help of Boss Frank Hague. So Smathers recently backed Hague's man Thomas F. Meaney for a Federal judgeship. And, although Senator Smathers has not distinguished himself in the Senate, President Roosevelt, who wants 100% New Dealers reelected, obligingly appointed Meaney (TIME, May 18). The deal was a piece of routine politics...
...Trondheim near week's end slipped the sleek 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen with four destroyers around her, a hefty flight of Nazi fighters circling overhead. British reconnaissance pilots spotted the force, beep-beeped frantically on their radios for help. They got it quickly. From Britain a heavy air striking force -Beaufighters, Blenheims, Hudsons and Beaufort torpedo carriers-swept out across the North Sea. They found the Nazi force and piled in, while German fighters hacked at them...
Into the Army went the biggest, most important draftee yet-the entire U.S. air-transport system. The Presidential order gave the Army control of 19 privately owned airlines, some 275 sleek transports, millions of dollars' worth of vital aircraft parts, hangars and machinery, and 24,000 skilled workers (including 2,500 badly needed pilots, 5,900 crack mechanics and ground men). The Army did not take over the airlines to increase their efficiency-that has been tiptop for years. The reason was urgent need: Army air-freight and passenger traffic has priority on grounds of overwhelming volume alone...
Young Jock, interested in Dallas' Southern Aircraft Corp., began traipsing over to Globe several times a week to watch progress on the company's sleek new monoplanes. Then he started buying Globe stock. Now he and his independently rich wife, Agnes Pyne McLean, own 16% of all Globe shares, can be outvoted only by Kennedy's 17%. A month ago Jock and Agnes both became vice presidents and directors of Globe...
...carbon, low-alloy steel suited for airplane wings, stabilizers, rudders, elevators, flaps and ailerons. Combined with a plywood fuselage, it makes a top-notch combat trainer, weighing only 3% (150 lb.) more than an aluminum ship. The aluminum saved on 1,000 steel-plywood jobs would make 420 sleek pursuit ships...