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"Lot's have it again, bud—not enough agony_for_a_winner.”

The Super-Speed Plan is running pretty slow

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

TWO YEARS AGO the Government announced a great scientific project designed to koop Britain ahead in the world race to develop super-speed, aircraft. At a cost of £20,000,000 the best-cquipped air research station in the world was to be built as quickly as possible near Bedford. This article gives the first on-the-spot progress report, a story of two wasted years

200,000 ALR

POWER STAT

HIGH ALTITUDE

TUNNEL

SUPERSONIC TUNNEL NOW BUILDING

1

AIRFRAME

TESTING SHOPS

CHEMISTRY LABS.

THE OFFICIAL plan of Britain's

WIND TUNNELS,

THURLEIGH. near Bedford, that some vital part difficult to re- Aug. 11. place is missing from each plece of WENTY-FIVE miles of equipment.

new concrete roadways Only someone skilled in the use to reproduce wind through the 3,000 of such gear would have known acrea of fertile country which which part to remove the technicians cds up to 1,500 m.p. The air- told me. The sabotage must have in Ministerial blueprints

carried out by Inbelled "National Aeronautical scientists. Establishment."

That is all,

are beca

From

my Inquiries here i doubtful whether the project will go through on anything like the scale originally planned.

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A Sinking Feeling On Shore

NEW YORK.

may

40.... His screen "Macbeth" com-

Welles

try THERE is bitterness on the pleted. Orson

Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." waterfront. Ships are Gertrude Lawrence wants a London idlo in their anchorages. Jobe premiere of her next play before for seamen vanish.

Broadway Gees it. Hollywood wants to cast James Mason AM

New York's Customs House count- Svengal opposita Rita Hayworth's ed 320 vessels in the port a year Trilby, ogo, 233 of them American. Today

there were 230 only-184 American, REAUTY: While getting perms in a The wartime U.S. merchant navy Boston beauty shop, women have of 260,000 men is down to under a choice of several radio musical 100,000.

programmes through carphones. The tunes even drown out the hair- drier's nolso,

The men's bitterness increases on reading that Britain is short of seamen, and that the Government

has asked every man to keep the Red Duster flying during Britain's trade crisis.

nid

of their WOOD.

They blame the Marshall planners for part Freighters are not filling fast enough Marshall cargo. Washington promises more freight soon.

But when Marshall aid dries up. Washington warns, we will just not be able to compete with the cargo rates of Britain and the Continental countries,

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from

WARNING to British businessmen W

and householders given today States by the conservative weekly United. "British living standards are higher

Nown

Washington: than on the Continent. Really close economic ties with the Continent could drag British standards down.

ars

TRUMAN has his bullet-proof rail- Ties with the Empire and Dominions

way carriage in a naval gun

sure. Marshall aid is only a factory tonight,

Your-year programme at best. Britain is not ready to gamble everything on

After I has been remodeller he will set out in it for the battle of his life.

IFTEEN MINUTES for tea mom- afternoon are smong

From its rear platform he willing and make the speeches which he hopes the slower English ways which irk will win enough votes to keep him, American stars now picture-making in the White House for four more in London, reporta years.

He is going to get right down to the common man. The gun factory Is lowering the platform so that crowds will be sure to see him and the famous Truman grin.

PRIENDSHIP.

Not only

Frederick Kuh.

correspondent

DRICES ARE UP. There are pram

bling mothers picket their butchers, parades in many cities., Grum-

urging other housewives not to buy meat until prices fall. Grumbling their shops for a while butchers suggest housewives run them a true picture of the so-called "to give profits behind the meat counter."

Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt says: "From some one who lives in London I hear that visiting Grosvenor-square (the site of the late President

esid statue) is ono

of the plea things to do there.

PRICES ARE DOWN. And Govern- ment narcotic agents are alarm- cause it is

so carefully tended, but ed. Heroin, £500 also because the people come rever- year, is

an ounce Jast now £125. ently, and often leave little floral tin of smoking opium a

A six-ounce offerings Gratitude for friendship

year ago warms the heart, and one senses gratitude in the crowls of Grosvenor Some

partly blame Palestine's war. square."

ed) financ arms purchases with dope sales. Mostly America's sup-

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IN AND OUT OF

PARLIAMENT

By ERNEST THURTLE, M.P.

i

his ruderies most

no newcomer to tough

biggest scientific project. In Afteen sicel tunnels, fitted with huge electric fans, selentists will be able wind conditions at

frame testing shops $11 house machines weighing thousands

of German tons and capable of crushing tho biggest aircraft in experiments to

"AN Imperial 'development swering back Arrently be am lest wing strength. The compara-

ilvely small wind tunnel shown in At one terminus 50 men are

only the linking up of ancient New-eltuations. One of his most difficult the right-hand corner is the building yet begun.... laying a massive foundation for

foundland with Canada-will was during the war, when he was a captured German wind tunnel.

Officials hint that the main wind

have the incidental effect of British representative to the French In hangars near by a few tech tunnels and laboratories may be set to speeds between 650 and 800 miles don Macdonald, out of a job. de Gaulle).

putting the Governor, Sir Gor- National Committee (which meant nicians are servicing great up in Australia instead. They give

an hour-British relentists would of dumps

other Luftwaffe two reasons for this.

Sir Gordon was with us on the At one time he was personal Arst experiment with robois.

Labour benches in Parliament for a assistant to Lord Halifax in equipment which came as re-

The 30 main buildings of the 1

Many rocket - powered robots good many years.

Washington, and later was Political station were to be clustered in costing £20,000 each have been ex- parations.

Adviser to the Supreme Allied An ex-miner. he sat for Ince, in an area which could be obliterated pended in unsuccessful tests co far. Lancashire, until he took the job Commander, by one plane-load of H.E. bombs, Now the project has been shelved of Regional Controller under the With a background like this he is It would be impossible to test until a new fuel, which will not Ministry of Fuel and Power, prior hardly likely to be intimidated by new aeroplanes in strict secrecy freeze at high altitudes, has been to his appointment to the governor-

Mr Vishinsky at his most fearsome. at Bedford. Service chiefs have prepared. abandoned a plan to put a defener area round the station because it take the risk have flown through the

US pilots who were allowed would use up too much valuable sound barrier many times. The in-

be a

to ARE to farmland.

formation they have obtained is be- NEWFOUNDLAND is remote, and

stand alonei ing put to Immediate usc

not much news of it comes to by

Westminster, but

Norman Smith, my colleague who American aircraft designers.

such reports have reached me suggest that Gor sits for Nottingham South, brings don has done his job well and has back to me that vallant motto of my reconciled himself to the pomp and youth, for he dares to stand forth of Parliament's one and only supporter 2 Governor Sir Ben Lockspeiser, the Govern- DRITAIN is still ahead in jet dignity attaching to

of Social Credit, the doctrine which The first 1,000 yards of it were to ment's chief air scientist, has stated engine research. New work by 95 to the manner born. be ready now.

unce set Alberta alight. that the greater part of Britain's Government scientists is dove-tall-

And now? Well, we must hope he research into the problems of flying ing perfectly with ideas worked out will be lucky. For the way down at speeds faster than sound-about by-private firms.

from the splendour of a Governor's 700 miles an hour-will eventually But engine design is not the castle can, it is said, be less pleasant be done in Australla.

bottleneck problem of supersonic than the way up.

the Belds of fuselage and wing

There pre по signs of the laboratories scheduled to be in use this year. The 200,000 h.p. genernt- Ing station needed to drive the wind tunnels-It could light a city the size of Manchester is still just an idea.

On the five-mile strip which was to be

The 1,500-mile rocket range be- the world's largest runway, Ing built in the Australian desert where test plots could take off and offers a ready-made solution to both land several times without stop these problems. ping, farmers are planning their crop rotations for the next five years.

Sabotage

Where we lag

4

ship.

to

THE German equipment, which was

form the nucleus of the THATEVER happens, no Import-light. The main diflculties are in research facilities, has proved tragically.

Want results can spring from the design. 'disappointing. Nearly every important item was effectively Bedford project for many sabotaged

years.

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DAR

Daniel, daro

Is:

Usually a quiet member, and a very agreeable fellow, Norman apt to sizzle on Social Credit,

Then from the heights of his Douglas wisdom he tooks-down on the rest of us as miserable economic sinners,

However, we are not disquieted.

It is in these research felds-for CR CHARLES PEAKE, British Norman has evidently seen a vision, waffe, laboratories, at Volkenrhode in the race to fly at these cupersonle tended--that Britain has fallen be diplomat of spirit, not the sort that believing that what Alberta thought before It left the Luft- Meanwhile America has gone ahead which the Bedford project was in Ambassador to` Yugoslavia, is a and there is no real harm in his

speeds.

hind.

to-

and Gottingen.

A year ago Sir Ben Lockspeiser Supersonic fight cannot be knuckles under to bullying.

yesterday Britain will think The men who dismantled it did ruled that because it might be pioneered by scientists however Mr Vishinsky made this discovery morrow. not know this. But the technicians dangerous for a pilot to fly through ablo — working with out-of-date at the Danube Commission the other But at least let me warn him the- on the

alte here have discovered the sound barrier-the name given equipment in "a small back room." day, when he found Sir Charles an- time is not yet.

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