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Thus the Danish immigrant who started out as a shipyard worker at $1.75 a day, rose to the $350,000-a-year presidency of the nation's biggest manufacturing corporation, handed over command of the U.S. war effort to a locomotive engineer's son from Hannibal, Mo., who had wanted to be a professor of chemistry, but who became, as the $70,000-a-year manager of Sears, Roebuck & Co., the country's No. 1 mass-buyer...
...positive, known result of the Churchill-Roosevelt conference was the creation of the Allied Supreme Command. And for weeks the top military and naval men of Britain and the U.S. had had their heads together. Field Marshal Sir John Dill remained behind to continue the discussions after the Prime Minister went home. He and Admiral Sir Dudley Pound (who returned to England) had had long discussions with the U.S. Army's General Marshall, the Navy's Admirals King & Stark, the Army Air Forces' Major General Arnold. Henceforth the fighting plans of the two nations would be made...
Under his command last week General Cárdenas had several squadrons of Mexico's small air force, some armed Coast Guard cutters, a few seasoned troops. They can patrol the peninsula, but are hardly numerous enough to defend it. And they have other jobs: widening and improving the road, laying out airports, installing radio stations, digging wells...
Burma's Air Force also got a new commander: 46-year-old Air Vice Marshal Donald Fasken Stevenson. Onetime commander of a bombing outfit in the United Kingdom, Marshal Stevenson is a field-educated flying man, has battle-trained flying men to command - not yet nearly enough of them...
...event of strafing: Yell, "Hi Yo, Silver!" point finger at plane and imitate the sound of rapid gunfire. Call the Fourth Interceptor Command and demand to know where the hell our Army and Navy...