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...dark midden of censorship OEM popped its head long enough for one brief, welcome word: the Republic P47 (Thunderbolt), fastest single-engined plane in the world, was about ready for quantity production...
...morning in 1816 an Englishman with a godlike face and a deformed foot registered at a Belgian inn, and, '"as soon as he reached his room . . . fell like a thunderbolt upon the chambermaid." It was George Gordon Lord Byron, "for whom foreign travel had a psychological significance which his traveling compan ions could not long ignore." His com panions: Dr. John ("Polly dolly") Polidori; his "querulous" valet, Fletcher; his sparring partner. Next afternoon they all set off for Switzerland via the year-old battlefield of Waterloo where Byron, an insatiable souvenir hunter, bought some scraps of old iron...
Myth. In the eyes of most Russians, Semion Budenny is something superhuman. They say that in the Revolution he and his horsemen struck like lightning, that ever since he has been a fine thunderbolt of a man. His was the revolutionary cry which swept southwestern Russia: "Proletarians, to horse!" Such speed did he command that sometimes (the legend goes) he personally fought in half a dozen sectors at once. With five men, the peasants say, he routed an army under Denikin. His praise, it is said, made men warm in winter; he could kill with no other ammunition than unprintable...
...took Damon's production shake-up to reawaken interest in Republic. Its prize plane, the high-flying Thunderbolt (P-47) had already won it a plump Army order (total: $56,500,000, some of which was ticketed for P-43s). But last week not a single Thunderbolt (except the "mock-up") had yet been delivered. Few weeks ago Major General "Hap" Arnold, Air Forces chief, dropped in at the Farmingdale, L.I. plant. He was so impressed by what he saw that the Army more than doubled Republic's backlog (to around...
...hired a seaplane, zoomed so close to them as they entered Sing Sing that he almost knocked their heads off. Celebrated was one of his leads about an Indian Princess who got entangled in a murder. Wrote he: "Princess Red Lilac may soon ride the White Man's Thunderbolt...