Craft Does 312 m.p.h. with Range of 3,100
Washington, Fed, i2.
A new United States Army bomber has just completed gruelling tests at San Diego and, according to reliable information, came through all trials with flying colours. It has a speed of more than 312 miles per hour, a Range of over 3,100 miles and can carry four tons of bombs.
The gigantic craft was built by the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation and is powered by four Pratt-Whitney engines of 18 cylinders and 1,200 horsepower apiece.—Havas.
Condition Amsterdam, Feb. 12.
The shocking industrial conditions in Austria, with factories closed down, and more closing daily; with unemployment a national problem steadily becoming worse, mere revealed graphically by information that has filtered out of the once-aristocratic country.
The great Viennese chocolate and baking factories have closed their doors from lack of raw material and have thereby thrown many more men and women out of work. Most of the textile factories have gone out of business, their former women employees being forced to work in the munitions factories. Great numbers of the smaller shops—integral parts of the commercial system which supports Vienna—have boarded up their doors and windows, and more workers are out in the street.
Discontent is rife among the workers—that is, those still at work. As in Germany, the employees are practically prisoners of ihe company for which they work, Employees Very Much Driven as they are forbidden to leave without their employer's consent. AW workers are compelled to become members of the Nazi organization—the German Workers Front.
During the months of October, November and December, Vienna was the scene, not only of minor accidents, but of railroad catastrophes that took a high toll of human lives. The cause for them is not hard to find—simply the unnatural strain put on man and machine alike. Rail. road workers are compelled to work twelve to fourteen uninterrupted hours a day. Three days may pass without them getting a chance to change clothing, so short are the rests and stops.
Rolling stock locomotives and cars are in just as bad a condition as the human workers and just as ruthlessly used. The waste on the Austrian railways is terrific. All in all, the general condition of the railroads in Austria, which is no worse than in Germany, is an excellent indication of the Hitlerian economic structure's strength Havas.
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