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Henry Ford assigned his crack speedster to run the job at Willow Run: hard-boiled Vice President Charles E. Sorensen, who is also the doctor in aircraft-engine building and all the other Ford production projects. Last week three-quarters of the steelwork on Willow Run's vast plant (275 acres of floor space) was finished. Bricklaying was well under way, and under gaunt girders workmen were installing machinery. Alongside, workmen were inlaying the turf with the seven great runways of a new airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Three's Two-Thirds | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Last week, as he hustled to Clipper home from China, where Harry Hopkins had dispatched him (at $1 a year) to pep up lend-lease traffic on the fabled Burma Road, Speedster Arnstein had again done his stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Burma Roadster | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...carry 11,000 gallons of gasoline (largest railroad tank-car capacity 10,000). With her range of 7,750 miles, she can fly from New York to Düsseldorf and back with full load, can stay in the air on patrol missions for more than 48 hours. No speedster, she reportedly will cruise around 200 m.p.h., but she is defended by the biggest assortment of machine guns and cannon ever put on one airplane. Her bomb load is 18 tons, three times the slug packed by the Flying Fortress. Everything else about her is on the same outsize scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: B-19 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Five years later, Speedster Jenkins won another bet: that he could drive from New York to San Francisco faster than he could travel by train. Although he had never been east of Cheyenne, Daredevil Jenkins scooted across the continent in 85 hr. 20 min. (train time: 100 hr.). So impressed was Studebaker Corp. it hired Jenkins to test its cars. So chagrined were the railroad companies (especially after a red-hot Hearstpaper ribbing), they put on faster transcontinental trains. But Jenkins embarrassed them again in 1931 when he drove a Studebaker, with a top speed of 90 m.p.h., from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mormon Meteor | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...speedster, a Stuka pilot comes in over his target at a maximum of 242 miles per hour, rolls or turns into his dive. Riding a bellowing beast that can step up to 435 m.p.h. in a vertical dive if it gets its head, he has diving brakes (strips that can be extended perpendicular to the wing) to keep his speed down around 250 for accurate bombing and a comfortable pullout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Stuka | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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