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CLOUDBUSTER
Friday, September 21, 1945
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 4—No. 1 Friday, September 21, 1945
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Commanding Officer
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Executive Officer
Lieut. Leonard Eiserer, USNR
Public Information Officer
Harold Hanson, Sp(P)2c
Photographer
The Lighter Side.,.
Jimmy Durante, reporting on his Alaskan
trip, told Garry Moore he saw a sign out
side an igloo which read “Eskimo Spitz
Dogs—five dollars apiece.”
“Well, what’s so unusual about that?”
said Garry.
“Unusual!” exclaimed Jimmy, “I got
fifty dollars that says the Eskimo can’t do
it!”
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An SP is nothing hut a talent scout for
the brig.
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The mistress of the house heard the bell
ring and saw a Chinese hawker standing at
the open front door. Quickly retiring she
called out to the maid:
“There’s a Chinaman at the door. You
go, Ella.”
This was too much for the Chinaman,
who stuck his head in and shouted indig
nantly ;
“You go ’ella yourself!”
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Lunatic (to new asylum superintendent) ;
“Who are you?”
Supt.: “I’m the new superintendent.”
Lunatic: “Well, it won’t take them long
to knock that out of you. I thought I was
Mussolini when I first came.”
* * *
An Englishman returned to his home from
a trip to America and was telling his
friends of odd American games.
“And they have the queerest game in
the movie houses. It’s called, ‘Oh, Hell,’
I think.”
“How do they play it?”
“Well, when you go in, they give you a
card with a lot of numbers and during
intermission a man yells out a lot of num
bers. Then someone yells ‘Bingo’ and
everyone else says ‘Oh, Hell.’ ”
In the deadly technological race for con
trol of the air, the American aircraft indus
try designed and developed a record total
of 150 separate types of military aircraft in
less than seven years.
Comprising 38 distinct tactical classes to
fulfill the widely varying tasks of combat,
training and supply, these 150 basic types
went through 417 distinct models and addi
tional thousands of detailed engineering
changes during their design and production
life.
The degree of acceleration of technical
advances due to the war is indicated by the
fact that in the 20-year period before 1940,
a total of 107 separate models of pursuit
aircraft were designed and delivered to
the Army, while the industry designed and
developed 212 pursuit models in the last
four years.
Because of its predominant size and va
riety of jobs, the Army Air Forces ac
counted for the larger share of these totals,
utilizing 255 models of 97 basic designs in
21 separate tactical categories. Naval avia
tion’s role in the war required 162 models
of 53 types in 17 different tactical classifica
tions.
Production Miracle
More airplanes were produced during
1944 by the American aircraft industry than
the total of all aircraft of all types pro
duced in this country from 1903 to Pearl
Harbor. In the 38 years of its history prior
to 1942, the industry produced an estimated
85,000 airplanes of all types, military and
commercial. In 1944 a total of 96,369 mili
tary airplanes was produced.
Airliners Are Busiest
An airliner travels more miles per year
than any other vehicle, three times as much
as a Pullman car, its nearest competitor.
The average truck or bus travels about 50,-
000 miles per year, and a Greyhound bus
about 80,000 miles per year. A Pullman
car travels 145,000 miles per year, while
the average airliner logs 464,000 miles per
year.
Jet Planes Too Quiet
Because of the absence of vibration in
the new jet-propelled fighters, small vibra
tors are attached to the instrument panels
to give the constant “jiggle” needed to as
sure accurate instrument readings.
The Wolf by Sansone
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"Just what have you been telling your friends about me?'
HELEN HIGHWATER
Y2c: You say, Helen is like a street car?
Ylc: Yeah, she goes right to town.
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CPO: “‘Our son certainly is clever. He
must get his intelligence from me.”
Wife: “He certainly must. I’ve still got
mine.”
Overheard at the gate—“You need a
tonic. Mac, you’re getting to look like the
picture on your I.D. card.”
^ ^ ^
Chief: “May I help you with that soup,
Mac?”
S2c: “What do you mean, help me? I
don’t need any help.”
Chief: “From the sounds you’re making,
I thought you wanted a life preserver.”
by Milton Caniff, creator of "Terry and the Pirates'
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