Soda Jerk Turned Aviation Mogul Builds 57 Passenger Plane
Jack Frye, 36, ex soda jerker and founder of Transcontinental & Neon Air, unveils a 57 passenger airliner with a 4000 mile range and 30000 foot ceiling. He claims a fleet of 40 could move 16000 troops to Alaska in 36 hours, reflecting a rapid rise from humble beginnings to aviation titan.
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EW York
Jack Frye
Transcontinental & Neon Air, Inc
Alaska
Sweetwater
Okla
Mr. Frye
California
Defense: Production Accelerates Air Motor Output in Connecticut
Junket guests of the War Department review defense production finding airplane motors rushed at a Connecticut plant to 1 400 000 horsepower monthly. Officials project 170 000 to 100 000 engines for 1941 42 with total air power near 10 000 000 horsepower monthly. Axis output estimated 3 000 000 to 5 000 000 monthly. Automotive industry expected to contribute later. Roosevelt draft proposal seen as economic dictatorship risk with strike breaking aim. Byrd and Tydings urge presidential leadership halting strikes and Congress must declare emergency first.
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Defense
War Department
Connecticut
America
Roosevelt
Congress
Byrd
Virginia
Tydings
Maryland
U-boats expand reach with longer range sinkings
Reported sinkings show German U boats growing larger with extended range, capable of striking eight British ships. Some attacks occurred within 700 miles of the United States, near the assumed neutrality patrol zone.
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United States
War on New Front Drives Syria Focus and German Tourists Claim
The article outlines British moves toward Syria after Crete with air attacks on Syrian targets and a push to seize Mosul oil fields. It cites French propaganda, German troop claims in civilian dress, and Turkish accounts of potential seaborne landings via the Dodecanese to land in Syria, while noting Allied and Vichy loyalties and disaffected troops in Syria.
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Crete
Great Britain
Syria
Germany
Syrian
Iraq
Petain
Darlan
Balkans
Greece
Britain
Mosul
Churchill
Mediterranean
Red Sea
Suez
North Africa
Malta
Cyprus
Alexandria
Dodecanese
Turkey
France
Weygand
de Gaullet
Palestine
Free French
Berlin
United States
Orient
Pacific
End of Road Doorn Kaiser Dies After Exile and Funeral
The former Kaiser Wilhelm died at 82 in Doorn Holland after 22 years in exile from Germany. Adolf Hitler ordered a full military funeral. The piece notes odd relations between Nazi Germany and the exiled ruler amid wartime politics and defense questions in the United States about oil sales and shipping losses.
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Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Doorn
Holland
Hitler
Hohenzollerns
New Aircraft Convoys Dominate Roosevelt War Plans
In Washington, the shift from traditional convoys to airplane patrols expands across the Atlantic and Pacific. Long distance bombers and island bases enable vast naval reach, with Hawaii and the Azores as pivotal hubs, and strategic talk centers on preserving fleet unity and guarding Atlantic gateways. The piece notes potential Gibraltar withdrawals and cites officials such as Homer Cummings and Hans Thomsen in passing.
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Washington
D. C
Roosevelt
United States
North Atlantic
Ireland
Pacific
Atlantic
mid-Atlantic
Hawaii
Aleutian Islands
mid-Pacific
Aleutians
North Pacific
Azores
Canary
Cape Verde Islands
Canaries
Cape Verdes
U. S
Hitler
Brazil
Navy Department
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Americas
Atlantic Islands
Homer Cummings
Pinehurst
N. C
Justice Department
Hans Thomsen
Milo Perkins
America
Responsibility and duty in Washington diaries
Eleanor Roosevelt reflects on a White House gathering with Latin American leaders, the weight of hemispheric leadership, and the duty of Americans to progress democracy. She describes the National Nutrition Conference for Defense and meeting Girl Scouts, then notes plans for gasless Sundays and daylight saving to save energy and lives.
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Americas
White House
United States of America
Central
South American
Mexico
Canada
Great Britain
China
United States
Washington, D. C
National Nutrition Conference For
Defense
Thomas Parran
United States Public Health Service
M. L. Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Beatrice Vlach
Dorothea Bock
Washingtonton
D. C
Washington
Hyde Park
Ickes
Current War Front Shifts to Syria With Iraq Oil Prize
Weekly news summary notes a shift in the war front toward Syria and Iraq oil fields as prize. It mentions drafts and new legislation intended to break strikes in defense plants.
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Syria
Iraq
Arms boost urged by Stacy May before Senate panel
Research chief of OPM Stacy May told the senate defense committee the American armament program must double to aid Great Britain and others against German production. He proposed raising next year's arms spending from twenty billion to thirty billions.
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Stacy May
OPM
Senate Defense Committee
Great Britain
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Consolidated Features
WIN
Standard Air Lines
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Walter A. Hamilton
Frye
Los Angeles
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Ariz
T.W.A
Richter
Lehman Bros
Newark
Helen Warner Vanderbilt
Edward Ellsberg
Captain Paul
John Paul Jones
Lew Wallace
Ben Hur
King
John Thomason
Marines
Ellsberg
Block Island
United States Naval Reserve
Hartford
Annapolis
Yale School of Naval Architecture
Neyre
Walter S. Tower
American Ion & Steel Institute
New York
Tower
University of Chicago
U. S. Shipping Board
Harvard
Pennsylvania
Vichy
Japan
Russia
Defense Investigating
Standard Oil Company
Azores and
Eleanor Roosevelt
Edward C. Wayne
Western Newspaper Union
U.S
Bear Mountain
N. Y
Coast Artillery
West Point
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