PLANE PURCHASES
EVERYTHING THAT FLIES t. . New York, Sept. 5. Britain is buying everything that can be flown and has snapped up the New York World Fair monpplane in which Howard Hughes, advertising the fair, encircled the globe in 1938, and private planes belonging to Alfred Vanderbilt, Dr. Brinkley (goat gland specialist), Richard Archbold and several companies. Tlie New York Herald-Tribune expects these to be converted into bdmbers on their arrival in England and adds that the Floyd-Bennett airport is shipping 400 planes to Britain annually, apart from those hauled over the border into Canada. It says there is a constant stream of Lockheed Hudsons, Northrop divebombers and Electras which, after being dismantied at the Floyd-Bennett field, are towed on lighters to Staten Island for loading. It is stated at Washington that Britain has ordered 2,000,000,000 dollars wortlf' of goods from the United States during the war, from fire-hoses to war planes. About 500,000,000 dollars worth has already been delivered and many new factories have been built, some finar.ced by Britain.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1940, Page 7
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