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Spring had come to the temperate zones, and to man's logistic zeal the northern pathways were almost as free as the all-year highways and alleys of the south Pacific. One foe, windblown by his dash, was catching his wind while his supplies came up. Another, fighting through the winter in the greatest battle of history, had dredged his high schools for new soldiers and scraped the bottom of factories and food stores for their supplies. In Easter week, while the United Nations sped over vast distances to meet them, they were about ready to strike...
...most notable individual submarine foe was tight-lipped Donald Francis Mason, 28-year-old Navy enlisted pilot, who two months ago sent the now-famed message: "Sighted sub, sank same" (TIME...
...good people of Zagreb retired to cafes to examine the situation over another glass of red wine. Having failed to discover any possible front on which their terrifying Ustachi could meet the wicked foe, the good people of Zagreb went quietly home and forgot...
...bottom of St.-Nazaire harbor, she had seen action enough in one night for several nautical lifetimes. There were the demoniacal Commandos ashore, blowing up pumping stations, bridges, buildings. There were the snarling little gunboats wildly blasting away at Nazi pillboxes. There were the frenzied Nazis firing at friend & foe alike. And there were the bombers overhead...
...open this week came the strangest internal fight in U.S. airline history. The battlers: nimble, Washington-wise, $60,000,000 Pan American Airways v. cagev, 90-year-old, multi-million-dollar W. R. Grace & Co., shippers, bankers and international traders. Pan Am boasts many a foe's scalp; Grace has a reputation for never losing a battle. The prize is domination of a great airline they started together, Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra). The only important airline on the whole west coast of South America, Panagra flies over 8,000 route-miles from the Canal Zone to Santiago...