Verhovayak Lapja, 1941. július-december (24. évfolyam, 27-52. szám)

1941-07-10 / 28. szám

Page 6 July 10, 1941 Verhovaydk Lapja Sunkist Southern California By ALBERT STEINMETZ Los Angeles, California Member of Branch 104, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Our South Land- ■ . By William B. Yuhase -Saturday afternoons we go out liding, scouting in the new car, and explore regions even I haven’t seen before. For example, I will take you on my last tour in and around Los Angeles. Starting out on Washington Boulevard (which would be 19th Street south), we set out west. In a minute we pass on our right 1975 W. Washington Boule­vard, the Magyar House, of which Béla Lugosi, movie actor (Frank­enstein), is the Honorary Presi­dent. It is a beautiful large house with many club rooms, dining rooms, kitchen-bar and a large yard. Here various Hungarian clubs and societies meet from time to time. The “Magyar Ifjú­sági Kör,” “Magyar Athletic Club,” “United Hungarian Sing­ing Society” and the “American Hungarian Pioneer Families ci California” call this their home. Who can tell, you may need their address and their telephone num­ber some day, so here it is: PARKWAY 9544. In a few minutes we’re out in Culver City. We pass by the huge Metro-Goldwin Mayer Stu­dios. But today’s trip takes us to see the largest airplane in the world, the B-19 bomber out in Santa Monica, on the grounds of the Douglas Aircraft plant. In Los Angeles every school­boy knows that the largest air­plane ever built is called the “Douglas B-19.” Shortly it is to be the pride and joy of The United States Army Air Corps. We are out at the plant but find the huge plane well within the fenced property, oh about 1000 or more feet away from the curious sightseers, well guarded and plenty of “Keep Out” signs —restricted area all over. It Was scheduled to fly as early as the first part of May. However, they found that they must build a larger “runway” for the “take­off.” We may not see the huge bomber as we wish to, but we see the hundreds of busy WPA workers pouring the tremendous concrete runway directly next to the Douglas plant. Very shortly everything will be all set for the much heralded trial flight, and everyone hopes that it will take off and fly safely—perhaps the early part of July. Here are facts and figures on this giant: Douglas engineers began think­ing about the ship many years ago, and have designed most Douglas planes on a sliding en­gineering curve up to this one. Research on the plane took 5 years, construction 4 years. They say that it cost Douglas $2,000,000 and the Army $1,000,000, but the aeronautical secrets learned by them (Douglas and the Army) are considered worth much more than that. This estimation of cost at $3,000,000 was announced 3 months ago. However, since then it is said that this most expens­ive sky giant ever constructed actually cost $3,500,000. It is now’ insured for $1,000,000. Premiums ■were $82,000 for the first minute of flight and $3,000 for each suc­ceeding test hour. This oversized “bird”-is as tall as a 3 story house. To be exact, it is 42 feet 9 inches from bottom to top of rudder. Fuselage is 132 feet long, in other words from the very front to the end. Single wing measures 212 feet tip to tip. Span of horizontal stabilizer in tail assembly, the “backwing,” is 61 feet. Ten men could stretch out across it. She can carry her own weight. When empty she tips the beam at 41 tons and when loaded to capacity she weighs 82 tons. The B-19 is powered with four 2,000 horse­power Wright Duplex Cyclone engines, and with her maximum load of 11,000 gallons of gaso­line stored in huge tanks she could fly from California to Lon­don and back to New York non­stop at the top speed of 210 miles per hour. Cruising range of the B-19 is figured at 7,500 miles. Ceiling maximum altitude at which the craft can fly is 22.000 feet. Cruising speed is 186 miles per hour. And the best speed for the ticklish job of landing the bomber is 69 miles per hour. Standing 8 feet high, Firestone tires on this B-19 weigh 961 pounds each and contain 148 miles of cotton cord and 3 miles of steel piano wire. She is fitted with a tricycle wheel Main wheels are 96 inches in diameter, and each of the two main assemblies weighs 2,700 pounds. This largest plane in the world carries enough oxygen equipment to sustain its normal crew of 10 men for 100 hours at 20.000 feet. She is maneuvered through 2 miles of control cables. The plane is of all-metal con­struction, heavily armored. 3,000,- 000 rivets were used on her. She is designed as a “convertible” and acts either as a bomber or as a troop-carrying transport. She is equipped to carry a bomb load of 18 tons, the weight of 18 “super-bombs” employed in the present European war. Fire power, not yet specifically revealed, will include machine guns, cannon and bombs. In use as a bomber, the B-19 could carry a normal crew of ten, and is equipped with sleep­ing facilities for eight. If used for troop-transport, the super­lative shadowed craft is able to carry 125 fully armed men. The normal crew consists oi the commander, the navigator, radio officer, pilot, co-pilot, chief mechanic and 3 relief crew mem­bers. Crew accomodations include a galley, wardroom and cabin with berths for 8 men. All parts of the plane, from nose to tail —even in the wings as far as the landing lights—are accessible in flight by companion ways and hatches. Officers and crew keep in vocal touch with each other through a 24-station telephone system. Four radio transmitting and re­ceiving sets contain as much equipment as that found in n medium-sized commercial broad­casting station. Complex and in­tricate wires used in the electric­ally operated units aboard, in­cluding the telephones and radios, would stretch 10 miles. The plane has a complete fire­­alarm system. The two gentlemen who got the assignments to test fly the plane are Major Stanley Umstead as Army test pilot and Lieutenant Colonel James G. Taylor as the co-pilot. Good luck to you, gentlemen! May you go up—fly—and come down safely! We continue our trip to the near-by shores of the blue Pacific, a ride to Ocean Park and Venice beaches, and amusement piers. We bump into a walking radio announcer of Station KMPC, “Radio Station of the Stars,” Beverly Hills, announcing over the air that every Saturday is “nickel day” for the “kids.” He stops us and asks us questions. If we answer him correctly we get free passes to amusement places. If we fail... We go on turning up north along the coast highway that could take us to Santa Barbara and San Francisco, but today we shall not ride that far. The Santa Monica Beach and the exclusive Malibu Beach are now on our left. Here’s where members of the Hollywood film colony like to make “whoopie.” We turn back towards Los Angeles and pick up Sunset Boulevard. From the seashore it will bring us back home directly to the heart of Los Angeles. It’s a thrilling ride on this beautiful, winding boule­vard. Nestled here and there are beautiful homes of many well-to­­do people, and many movie stars’ homes are located here. We pass the famous “Bernheimer Oriental Gardens” in Pacific Palisades Park, the Will Rogers Memorial Polo Field and the huge Will Rogers Ranch, open to visitors. We come close to the U. C. L. A. grounds (Univ. College of L. A.). We pass the many beautiful homes as we pass Beverly Hills, West Hollywood. Traffic is getting very heavy as we reach Hollywood, and as we continue we pass the Hollywood’s Radio Centre Studios, Earl Carroll’s theatre-night club, the beautiful new Palladium and many other spots of interest. Come with us again next month. We’ll take a trip to de­lightful Santa Catalina Island. By the time you read this, Albert Jozik of our English Sec­tion Journal will be here as my guest, I hope to show my dear friend Albert as many things as we can possibly squeeze in, and I know that he will never regret this wonderful trip. Its beautifully inspiring, memories will remain with him.--------------O--------------Supplement to Albert Steinmetz’ SUNKIST SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Flash! Los Angeles, California! June 27, 1941. The B-19 today success­fully made its maiden flight. It took off from Clover Field, with Major Stanley Umstead at the controls. It was in the air one hour, and landed 65 miles away at March Field, near Riverside, California. 45,000 people saw the take-off. 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Perhaps it is surprising to read that a cotton picker will not pick over 150 lbs. of seed cotton in a 10 hour day. The seed cotton is allowed to accu­mulate until about 1000 lbs. have been gathered, then is hauled down to a cotton gin and ginned, that is, the cot­ton seed is separated from the lint. These 1000 lbs. of seed cotton will produce about a 500 lb. bale of cot­ton lint. The baled cotton is tagged, baled and stored in ware­houses, where it is stapled. Some of our large planta­tions will grow cotton to manufacturers’ specifica­tions, so the bales of the same classification are al­lowed to accumulate until the shipment is ready. In the meantime, the cot­ton seed is returned to the farmer, and he eagerly grabs this, for on large planta­tions the seed is usually all given to the tenant farmer. The seed is hauled to a cottonseed oil mill and sold. This oil mill will clean the seed from foreign matter such as trash, sticks and stones. The seed is then run through some special gins and the fine cotton lint re­moved. The delinted seeds are then cracked open by a huller. The meats are automatically separated from the hulls, then fed into a huge crushing roll. The crushed meats are then cooked with steam pressure in order to loosen up the oil cells. From the cooker the meats are fed with a cake former, which forms a cake about 12”x42”x2” thick. About 16 of these cakes are placed in a hydraulic press, and tremendous pressure is applied. The crude oil thus expressed is sent to cotton­seed oil refineries by rail­road tank cars, where the oil is refined, bleached, fil­tered and processed. The processed oil is then made into lard compounds, artifi­cial butter and salad oils. Some of it finds its way into artificial icings on cakes. In the meantime, the meal cake is cracked up and ground very fine. The ground meal is fed to dairy herds as it is rich in protein. It is also rich in fertilizer value, but far too expensive for use by the chemical companies. I was much amazed to learn that over 400 different products were produced from this simple little plant. And each and every year science deals its deadly blows. First it was rayon, then wood pulp, and now nylon. I’ll never forget an old darkey and I standing on the levee of the Mississippi, when that mighty river was starting to stir in its bed after being fed by the heavi­ly swollen northern tribu­taries. The darkey said, “Boss, cotton is like the Mississippi, it will always keep on rolling along.”--------------O-------------­BRANCH 361 NOTICE Cleveland, Ohio The regular monthly meet­ing of Branch 361 is held the FIRST MONDAY of every month. Please be present at all the meetings, as this is im­portant to the progress and welfare of the branch. Fraternally, Mrs. GABRIEL SONKOLY Publicity Agent,--------:o:--------­SUPPLEMENT to BRANCH 361 NOTICE Cleveland, Ohio Our meeting begins at 8:00 P. 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