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Some soldiers crossed on foot bridges. The night before, engineer patrols had sneaked steel cables across the river, and these had remained slack, submerged and undetected during the day. Now they were pulled taut, out of the water, and swaying foot bridges were strung across in a matter of minutes...
To test a domestic phone service without cables or wires, a string of radio relay stations between New York City and Boston will be set up as soon as "war conditions" permit. A.T.&T. President Walter S. Gifford thus reported to stockholders last week. The "vehicle" visualized: ultrashort waves, known...
He was a tireless reporter, sensitive to the sights, sounds, horror and humor of war. His cables reflected that sensitiveness. In the Kwajalein cleanup his eyes had caught the sight of a dead Jap's bearded waxen face sprinkled with the rubble of a wrecked pillbox, on Leyte the...
He was deeply interested in people. His cables were filled with descriptions of the men he met-the soft-spoken Marine colonel known as "The Brute," the New Zealand major with a fresco of butterflies and birds tattooed on his chest, the scared troops aboard an assault ship with their...
Hopkins spent six weeks in England, two-thirds of the time as Winston Churchill's guest. While he was planning aid-to-Britain in the quiet recesses of Chequers, Wendell Willkie arrived to acquaint himself (and the U.S. public) with the plight of the British. When Hopkins returned to the...