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General MacArthurs first task was to organize an effective command system. It was no easy job. He had to gear himself to the United Nations' central headquarters in Washington (TIME, March 30) and to a new Pacific War Council which the President created in Washington this week, with equal representation for Australia, New Zealand, China, Canada, the U.S., Britain. He had to find adequate use for the talented, familiar staff which he brought with him from the Philippines* without offending the hospitable but proud Aussies...
...centrifugally cast barrels burst at 9,000 to 10,000 lb. "Moreover," said a Ford engineer last week, "$10,000 worth of centrifugal dies will turn out as many cylinder barrel blanks as a $110,000 forging hammer." Landing gear for bombers is also centrifugally cast by Ford...
...team came out on the floor for the second period with the score reading like a track meet at 34 to 12, the well-oiled Harvard team started to run in a little lower gear as the Quakers took advantage of numerous Crimson lapses to raise their total higher than it should have been...
...arrived at the Newell Boat House yesterday morning, and the effects of the war were hardly noticeable. Its weight, 270 pounds, is the same as last year's shell, and the same wood stock was used. Most important waste shift back to the old type of rope controlled steering gear...
...handed, rope steering gear on the newest shell is identical with the ones used up until three years ago, at which time the new type was tried out and found very satisfactory. Priorities and defense demands have not yet claimed the tubular steel out rigging of the boat...