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...outfit that was not surprised by the first shattering havoc wrought by German Stukas was the U. S. Navy. For Navy fliers had first conceived and developed the technique of launching a bomb from an airplane diving as close to the vertical as possible. But because U. S. citizens and their Congress believed in penny-pinching Army & Navy upkeep in peacetime, most of the Navy's dive-bombers today are obsolescent biplanes, descendants of the first Curtiss Helldiver...
Easily the most important of these threats was the first. The romantic roller coaster of the Burma Road is China's best-publicized and most spectacular lifeline, but it is desperately vulnerable to air attack. Because a single lucky or well-aimed bomb can back up several days' traffic in no time, Chiang Kaishek's Government has in recent months depended increasingly on the flow of goods through Kwangtung Province, southernmost in China...
Formed in the 16th Century to harass Spanish conquerors, Les Gueux was revived last year by students of the Nazi-shuttered Universities of Delft and Leiden. With them it has become a truly underground organization, with many of its members hiding out in cellars of bomb-wrecked buildings...
Riding through the streets of Bristol, the Ambassador got his first glimpse of the bomb wreckage that he will see every day from now on. Then with the Duke of Kent he boarded a special train for London...
Nearly three years ago TNEC ("Monopoly Committee") asked SEC to investigate insurance. To make the investigation (which they limited to legal reserve life insurance), SEC appointed Ernest J. Howe and Gerhard A. Gesell. For weeks their report has been ready, emitting occasional hisses like a buried bomb, waiting for TNEC Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney to make up his mind to release it. Last week he did so. The explosion was loud. But very few people got hurt...