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Russia is the only other nation to develop analogues and put them to similar use. When a high U.S. weather officer visited Russia in 1942, he found parallel developments, forthwith began American-Russian meteorological collaboration. Later a Russian mission, including Lieut. Colonel S. T. Pagava, chief long-range forecaster, came to the U.S., traded more technical information. Now the British Meteorologic Office and the Admiralty have sets of U.S. archive charts, and duplicates are on file in every key weather station throughout the Allied world...
Last week the Premier and his fellow moderates got a lift from home. Three members of the Polish Underground brought word to London that the Polish people wanted General Sosnkowski stripped of his political power. Forthwith the Council, already astir with proposals to do just that, voted to let the General keep his military command, appoint a civilian Pole as successor to the Presidency...
...time's nick a court decision on the legality of the Government seizure. Next morning, as U.S. District Judge William H. Holly mounted his bench in Chicago, he carried a newspaper clipping in his hand. The news, he said somewhat sadly, made any decision from him unnecessary. Forthwith, he ordered all copies of his decision destroyed. His secretary told reporters, with equal sadness, that it was "a literary...
Jimmy Forrestal plunged into his new job with characteristic vigor. Returning from Frank Knox's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, he put in two hours of work at his office. Forthwith, he inaugurated daily staff meetings with Assistant Navy Secretaries Ralph A. Bard and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates. He conferred with top admirals on progress of the war, talked with the Army and Congressmen over the proposal to combine the Army & Navy into one department after the war. Then, with WPB's bustling Charles E. Wilson, he made a flying trip to Boston to pep up production...
...Forthwith he drafted a rebuke which made no distinction whatever between the occupying Germans and the occupying Yanks. Growled Christian: ". . . Decisions which involve cutting forever connections between Icelandic people and their King should not be realized as long as both Iceland and Denmark are occupied by foreign powers. . . . We cannot acknowledge the change of constitution that the Althing [Icelandic Parliament] and the Icelandic Government have decided upon without negotiation with...