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...Surgeon General David Grant and General H. H. Arnold soon installed the system in all A.A.F. hospitals, with Dr. Rusk in charge (TIME, April 26). It now affects about 60,000 men in 259 hospitals. Convalescents have made thousands of plane models, practiced sending and receiving radio code while still in bed, planted 200 Victory gardens, studied 50 languages and dialects, done exercises graduated from toe-wiggling in bed to ten-mile hikes with full packs. The hospitals find that under the A.A.F. system 1) 25% fewer men have relapses; 2) convalescence from certain acute, contagious diseases (e.g., virus pneumonia...
Somberly, the little man with venom in his heart went home. At midnight, his mind was made up. In the way prescribed by the rigid samurai code, Nakano purified himself with cold water, donned a new kimono, knelt on a pillow before a small shrine. With a sure hand, he plunged a dagger into his belly, drew it across, then turned it upwards...
...could forget that handsome, super-relaxed Mississippian, Ben Hardy, who, incidentally, ain't slow when it comes to radio and radio code. "Twenty-five-a-minute Hardy," they call him around here...
...Fair. In Kansas City, TWA Executive Otis Frank Bryan reported that over the Atlantic a TWA plane got a radio call from a German submarine commander who complained, correctly, that the plane was using the wrong code for that...
...Attached to it are some 1,100 officers and 15,000 enlisted men to work its communications, gard its sprawling area, cook its meals, drive its cars, guard its billets and offices on more than 2,000 pieces of Algiers real estate. Its Signals center handles in 1,000 code messages a day. A newly arrived U.S. officer, previously accustomed to the spaces and complexities of Washington's Pentagon Building, took a preliminary look at A.F.H.Q. and gasped...