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...domestic runs, pilots will get approximately $1,000 a month for 80 flying hours; copilots, $280 to $460. The Board also agreed to give pilots such things as moving expenses, sickness and injury benefits, cost-of-living differentials (between Europe and the U.S.), two-and four-week vacations...
From here they will go out on assignments in smaller camps totaling so to 100 children for a four-week season. Time on the job will vary from 12 to 14 hours daily. At the conclusion of this service, there will probably-be time for side trips to Switzerland and Paris...
...Last week the Czechs set out to discover what kind of noises Allied music had been producing behind the din of war. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the citizens of Prague opened a four-week Government-financed International Music Festival. Main courses in the feast: jarry American spice and the lean tonal dishes of modernists in Russia, France and England...
...last week, before still another turning point came, some 150 square miles of Japan's greatest industrial centers had been burned out. In a four-week period devoted exclusively to low-level missions, the loss of planes dropped well below 1%. Because the gasoline used in climbing was saved, the bomb tonnage per plane rose spectacularly, from 2.8 to 7.5 tons. (For Japan-bound planes refueling at Iwo, it rose to 10 tons.) High-level bombing was not out for good, but low-bombing...
...announcing the plan, the Army strongly emphasized one point: the program will not delay any soldier's homecoming. Students will receive certificates of credit after every four-week term. As far as possible, every term will be independent of subsequent terms. As soon as their travel orders arrive the G.I.s can leave school...