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Street lights swung suspended in midair like furry halos. Snub-nosed busses, bunched in convoys, crawled in low gear behind inspectors pacing ahead with lanterns. Three passengers were killed in a suburban train crash; hundreds of fenders were dented...
...angry letters to the Navy since the "Indy" was lost. The court-martial should show whether McVay, who was born to Navy tradition (his father is a retired admiral), was justified in steaming on a straight course at only 17 knots, especially as the ship had no submarine detection gear...
...same story, at the same hour, in other sections of Detroit, at Fleetwood Plant, at Chevrolet Gear & Axle. It was the same at the iron foundry in Saginaw, at Fisher Body Plant in Flint, at Delco-Remy in Muncie, Ind., at Delco Radio in Kokomo. It was the same at the warehouses in Los Angeles and Denver, at 80 G.M. plants in more than 50 cities in 19 states. A button had been pushed in Detroit and 175,000 U.S. men & women laid down their tools. Reconversion would have to wait...
...A.A.F. had already lifted China's Sixth Army twice, with its 25,000 men, 2,178 horses and mules, more than 1,500 tons of gear. Now it was time again to pick up the Sixth, which claims to be "the most airborne army in the world." It was a bigger job than ever: at Chikiang the Sixth had been swollen to more than 33,000 men. The Tenth Air Force's 443rd Troop Carrier Group loaded 45 to 50 of the men into each of its C-46s, flew them over central China's great blue...
Shifting to winter headquarters indoors, the undergraduate exercise program will swing into high gear Monday with the addition of House basketball, wrestling, and squash, Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Athletics, announced last night...