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...pinch caught the U.S. with virtually no munitions industry except a few Army arsenals. ("We were proud of our lack of militarism," said Bob Patterson.) As of last week the Army Ordnance Department had built or under way 21 plants for powder, TNT, etc., was already getting some production...
What is the Nazi airman like who, in a flash of TNT and the space of a second, without seeing you or being seen, blows to pieces your children, your home, your life? This week I Was a Nazi Flier claimed to tell. The book purported to be the diary of pseudonymous Gottfried Leske, flight sergeant in the Luftwaffe, who took part in the great Blitz on London, Birmingham, Coventry, is now a prisoner of war in Canada...
...captains of twelve German and Italian vessels lying in harbor, summoning them ashore for a conference. As soon as the skippers set foot on land they were arrested. Boarding parties of Marines then took possession of the ships. Aboard one, the Italian tanker Fede, they reported finding a TNT bomb rigged to explode when the engine was turned over. Another Italian tanker, the Atlas, was already sinking when they boarded her. Her skipper, Captain Lelio Fazzi, had not been lured ashore, had stayed to scuttle his ship. The Marines clambered back into their launches, shouted to Captain Fazzi to abandon...
...Girl and a Gob (RKO Radio). Coffee Cup (George Murphy) is a whacky extrovert of the Step-Right-Up-and-Call-Me-Speedy school with a TNT punch, an irrepressible line of chatter, a knack-for betting on the wrong side, an unfailingly empty purse. Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball) is the girl. Belabored by a shiftless family of zanies and a vague inclination towards matrimony, she seems completely satisfied just tagging along with Coffee Cup as he churns up street brawls, whirls around the dance halls or lounges in a hamburger joint with his sailor pals. Dot's boss...
...airplane factory at Grand Prairie, a $10,000,000 airplane assembly plant at Garland, a plant to assemble four-motored Army bombers at Fort Worth. Dow Chemical Co. is spending $15,000,000 on a plant at Freeport, Tex. for extracting magnesium from Gulf water. Manufacture of toluol (for TNT) from petroleum was begun by Shell Oil Co. at its Houston refinery; a new $10,760,000 toluol plant was also under construction at Baytown, Tex. by Humble Oil. Another defense-born baby of the oil industry was synthetic rubber: Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana...