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...Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 41 (Growing Up in New Guinea...
Pilots in New Guinea said that the new plane was about the same size as the old Zeros (about 38-39 ft. wingspread, 28 ft. long); was powered by an in-line V-type engine (the various Zeros have radial, air-cooled engines); had armor; carried one 7.7-mm. machine gun in each wing and two 12.7-mm. machine guns in the nose. In armament, the Japs had evidently borrowed some ideas from the Americans' destructive .50-caliber machine guns, to which the 12.7 roughly corresponds. New Guinea flyers said that the newcomer could outdive...
Along a 2,000-mile front of islands and ocean in the south and southwest Pacific, the Allies crept closer towards Japan's muscular inner perimeter of defense. Towards the Gilberts, the northern Solomons, western New Guinea-outposts where Japan is fighting to hold off that advance-Allied forces announced some progress last week...
...Guinea. Finschhaven was the third Jap base on the Huon Gulf to succumb to General Douglas MacArthur's relentless drive. Salamaua had fallen in 75 days, Lae in twelve, Finschhaven in ten. The crack Australian 9th Division knocked out the Jap's last pillboxes with hand grenades and swarmed over their stronghold. Few Japs were taken prisoners. Some fled into the jungle with hard-bitten Diggers on their heels. The Japs fought fiercely but, according to the men of the 9th, not as formidably as the Germans. The 9th ("Morshead's Marines") should know. They helped crack...
Thomson got some business and University of Minnesota friends to help him form the Northwest Research Committee. They picked Albert Lea as their guinea pig: it represented a neatly balanced war-busy industry and farming. Last June, under the spur of N.R.C., 46 Albert Lea citizens began to examine their city and county. The U.S. Chamber's pamphlet tells what the Albert Leamen and N.R.C. found...