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...Patterson's unspoken point was that wars are not fought by aircraft alone. Before Congress last week was the vastest military appropriation bill in history: a $71½-billion program for everything the Army will need in fiscal 1944, from dog food ($3½ million) to ammunition ($8 billion), guns, tanks, etc. ($6¼ billion) and aircraft ($23½ billion-the largest single item). With such a job ahead, neither labor nor industry could loaf for a minute...
Revered Vision. Another was that, when the U.S. was pushed into World War II. it was also pushed into the vastest problem of world supply that any nation had ever had to meet. A third was that the vision of aviation's mission in the world, in war and peace, given to Army airmen by the late great Billy Mitchell, was still revered...
Colonel Edgar Staley Gorrell, president of Air Transport Association of America, was testifying last week before a House committee. Like many another U.S. air executive he was not only looking back with regret, he was also looking ahead with foreboding. One day peace would come, and with it the vastest problem in world transportation that peacemakers had ever met. The world had to be opened to the airlines. How could it be done...
Some of the islands are so small that they seem no bigger than a whitecap from a few miles' distance. The way a Navy plane's navigator can hit a tiny speck in the vastest of oceans is amazing. The navigators seldom miss, and no navigator misses but once...
Steve Early's figurative reference to battleships, while well and humorously meant, was figuratively unfortunate. The battleship has thus far proved to be the booby of this war, and Mr. Early was alluding to Winston Spencer Churchill, 67, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 60, flagships respectively of the vastest Empire and the mightiest Republic in all history. At the moment when Flagman Churchill crossed the Atlantic (not in a battleship but in an airplane) to have a long visit with Flagman Roosevelt, both the majestic Empire and the fabulous Republic were taking a hell of a licking...