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...world's largest paint-spray booth is now abuilding at the Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant at Baltimore. The Brobdingnagian booth (152 ft. long, 100 ft. wide, 32 ft. high) will be roomy enough to accommodate any U.S. warplane (except the B19) whole or in parts. Movable partitions provide from one to eight sections for painting small planes and subassemblies. To protect workmen against spray vapors and reduce fire hazard, each compartment is equipped with a curtain of water through which air is drawn by huge fans. When all sections are operating, every minute 3,200 gal. of water...
...general made his first tour of inspection to two of the most important posts in his command last week. He is George Lyndon Carpenter, who succeeded Evangeline Booth as head of the Salvation Army in 1939. The posts: Chicago and New York...
...indirect means he knows that the work still goes on. Only in Italy has the Army been suppressed. In Germany and Japan it still has German and Japanese officers. Some 200 U.S. and British Salvation Army officers are now Axis prisoners or have been interned-including Colonel Mary Booth (granddaughter of Founder William Booth), Army commander in Belgium...
Australian-born, 70-year-old General Carpenter was a $1.25-a-week printer's devil before he joined the Army in 1892. "My sole program for the Army," he says, "is religion-always hot, as General William Booth used to say he liked his religion...
...short-wave listening began on an experimental basis from a booth at the National Lawn Tennis championships at Forest Hills in September 1939. Engineers installed the listening equipment there because reception was good, and when Ted Husing was not giving a hushed account of the tournament, monitors used the direct wire to relay short-wave news from Europe back to Manhattan headquarters. CBS has been eavesdropping on the Axis -and on more friendly stations-ever since...