The Mosley Road aircraft factory - here shown producing either later model four-engine Avro Manchesters or Avro Lancasters. (Imperial War Museum)

Get A Move On

SINCE Tuesday the House of Commons has been debating war production, and the statements make disquieting reading for the public.

It is perfectly obvious that our organisation is far from being satisfactory, and it is equally clear that after twenty-two months of war we are a long way from achieving full and efficient production.

Springtime Down the Cape

By Mary S. Freeman (Wellfleet)

Four spring arrivals which precede April 19th by a few days, all arriving about the same time, include mayflowers, “peewinks”, (elsewhere I note they are called “peepers”), herring and dried apple pies! All are welcome additions to spring, barring the dried apple pies, which only fill in, so to speak, between time when winter apples lose in quantity and flavor and new ones are in the market.