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...national leader, what does Dewey stand for? The basic facts of his foreign policy...
...basic promise we have made you as a subscriber does not end with our obligation to report the dramatic, exciting news that spreads headlines across the week's newspapers. It goes much further than that -for we have also promised that after you have, read your copy of TIME you will be thoroughly and understandingly well-informed about the policies and decisions and changing conditions that may erupt into headlines next week or next month...
...with the other nations of the earth in creating [a] free world organized under law, and made safe by armed might when necessary against lawbreakers. . . . "Unless the British, Soviet, Chinese and United States Governments arrive jointly at a clear-cut and specific agreement in the near future upon certain basic principles, the hope of the creation of a stable world in the postwar years must necessarily be all but illusory...
...which Bendix engineers worked seven years, is based on an entirely different principle. Exactly how it works is still a military secret (at least one of the instruments has fallen into Axis hands, but its inventors believe it will take Axis scientists years to figure it out). Its basic parts are a triangular set of coils and a gyroscope. The function of the gyroscope (which spins at 10,000 revolutions a minute) is simply to keep the instrument level during a plane's turns and lunges. The coils, which replace the needle in the old compass, pick up currents...
...ranks of the ASTP unit as well as the College will be increased by the return of about 50 former members of the third-year ROTC who have just finished basic training and are awaiting vacancies in OCS. These men will take Military Science under First Lieutenant Thomas G. Burke, FA, and College courses from a list which the Army considers valuable, and will also have administrative duties...