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Flat-Tired Take-Off. Major Gilbert Wymond, a Thunderbolt pilot from Kentucky, tried the unheard-of stunt of loading his P47 with two 1,000-lb, bombs. The load squashed his fully inflated tires nearly flat on the takeoff, but he staggered into the air. Since then P47 pilots have lugged two 1,000-pounders as a matter of routine...
John van Druten's smash comedy, The Voice of the Turtle, cost $25,000 to produce. Last week Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr. offered it to Hollywood for $3 million. This unheard-of price involved an unprecedented deal. To the buyer would go not only the coveted film rights, but the play itself-the current Broadway production, probable future productions in Chicago and London, the road, stock, amateur, radio and television rights...
...butyl, the synthetic from which inner tubes were to come. Ex-Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold once hailed butyl as the king of all rubber synthetics, and roundly denounced Standard Oil (N.J.) for not putting it on the market. Standard's prompt protests that butyl was not perfected went unheard. But butyl, which was once programmed to supply 75,000 tons a year, proved Standard right, Arnold wrong. It is strangled in the intricacies of manufacture...
...furnace of these sometimes fumbled campaigns the Navy had forged a powerful weapon. To its fleet had been added strange, unheard-of craft which opened their mouths like Jonah's whale to spew trucks, howitzers, Marines, Seabees, infantrymen, seagoing tanks, onto beaches. To naval warfare had been added a whole new book of "standard procedures" covering the hazardous, complicated job of ship-to-shore ferrying. The "beach master" who stood on shore directing the weird traffic assumed as much importance as the master of a ship...
Brazil was in a mess. Even before she entered the war, the U-boats had smashed the vital shipping routes along her 4,899-mile coastline. She was starved for imported manufactures. Buyers were scarce for her coffee, cotton, cacao. The Allies were screaming for unheard-of amounts of manganese, rubber, bauxite, mica, other strategic materials...