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Show MASTERS TAKES RAP AT PLANE MANUFACTURERS I50ISE (Special) "Three greedy airplane companies violated the international in-ternational peace treaties with Oern'.aiiy by selling patent rights on airbonibers to Hitler and Ins .ohorts granting them permission to build bombing planes which voi" invented and built primarily lor use only by the V. S. Army and Xavv defense," said Ira II. Masters, candidate for represents live in Congress on the Democratic ticket and former secretary of state. "Much of Germany's success tints far in the European war has been due to the use of the diving bomber bomb-er which is almost an exact duplicate dupli-cate of the bomber designed by our American factories for defense of our own nation." "The concerns which gave these patents to Hitler and his crowd and betrayed their own country are Tratt & Whitney, Curtis-Wright, Curtis-Wright, and Douglas Aircraft," said Masters. While these munition makers vast profits, as high in some instances in-stances as to be over one million per cent, our young men are asked ask-ed to risk their lives and their future health by enlisting for service ser-vice for the paltry sum of twenty-one twenty-one dollars per month. Willi such conditions where can wo justify Hint Jeffersonian doctrine of. 'Equal rights to all and special privilege to none." "The Ford plant would make $5,375,000 on 5,000 airplane engines or' more than $1,000 per engine. If he manufactures 1,000 engines a day his profit would only be a cool million per day. (The above facts and figures are taken from the magazine, "The Nation") |