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Protective equipment was moving steadily if slowly into cities in the "target areas." Auxiliary firemen were training. Test air-raid alarms were increasing. The Civil Air Patrol, of which Landis is particularly proud, was doing a bang-up job, flying a half million miles a week on courier and scouting work, though Army censorship kept its light under a bushel...
...looked around for a partner, picked the privately owned U.S. airlines because of the bang-up job they did under the Air Service Command (TIME, June 29). With one eye on previous experience and the other on location of supply and maintenance bases, ATC has already assigned wartime routes to ten major U.S. airlines (including Pan Am and Panagra), will hand out other routes when it can iron out details with the remaining eleven U.S. airlines...
...Paramount, bedeviled by the inexorable disappearance of young leading Hollywood males into the U.S. armed forces, the happiest discovery of Take A Letter is undoubtedly bright, manly MacDonald Carey, whose first cinemappearance (as the tobacco baron) is a bang-up job. Fresh from the corn country (University of Iowa, '35), young Carey moved into his first Broadway role as Gertrude Lawrence's leading man in Lady in the Dark. Paramount, which had previously tested and rejected him, took him when it bought the play. Now it can do nothing but weep over its new find. His draft rating...
...ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. After years of tub-thumping in favor of prefabricated housing they don't like the appearance of Carquinez Heights! Believe me, if one of the most sensitive artists in America today, I speak of "Bill" Wurster, cannot satisfy the champions of demountables with a bang-up job like the Vallejo project there must be something basically wrong with the theory. I studied the detail drawings and photos of this job very carefully and am at a loss to know how it could be done any better...
...Forces. He is also something of a legend. Trained at West Point, Spaatz entered aviation on the ground floor, flew in Mexico in 1916 with General Pershing's expedition. In 1917, assigned to build up an Aviation Instruction Center for Americans in Issoudun, France, he did such a bang-up job that the Army ordered him back to the U.S., to do the same thing at home. Tooey temporized, begged to see action first...