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...bits of metal bearing serial numbers. Then the party scrambled back to its own lines. By last week, the plane had been identified as a light L19 spotter, and in the G.R.S. laboratory at Kure, Japan, the pilot's skeleton had been assembled, his height determined, dental chart plotted. If the data obtained from this work checks with a name listed on a unit roster, another U.S. fighting man's name will be transferred from "missing in action" to "killed in action." In the fighting lull, the unsung men of Graves Registration were busy trying to bridge...
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...front, the cold-weather men live in foxholes to find out how frostbite creeps up on troops, and whether the Army's new insulated, gum-rubber shoepacks are working effectively. Special weather stations have been set up to chart temperature, humidity and wind velocity every hour, day & night. The information is checked against the flow of field casualties to determine the exact conditions under which frostbite occurs. Everywhere, team members ask a steady stream of questions: Did your feet perspire? Were you asleep? How were you dressed...
...income. Taxes and inflation have dented the dollar to the point where a U.S. couple with two children must earn $6,072 a year to enjoy the same standard of living that $3,000 a year brought in 1940. And the higher the income, the higher the ratio (see chart...
Collecting and keeping such an endless stream of racing information is an intricate business. Crews of Perlman's men- dockers, chart-callers, call-takers, reporters-cover every major North American race. To transmit the information, the Telegraph has its own teletype circuits. It also keeps in type, ready to print, the up-to-date records of more than 30,000 horses...