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In battle, the Fourteenth Air Force is a handful of bold-eyed young men, haunted by the necessity of economy in the use of their too-few aircraft, inspired by the genius and unerring tactical wisdom of Major General Claire Lee Chennault. On the ground it is a strange compound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR,COMMAND,HEROES,CIVILIAN DEFENSE: The Fourteenth | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

The problem has haunted President Penaranda. After the strike was put down, a mixed U.S.-Bolivian commission, in response to public indignation in Bolivia and the U.S., investigated the mines, made recommendations which the President promised would be carried out. They never were. Now, President Penaranda had the choice of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Cabinet | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Dealing with the rivalry between the godly Baptists, the paganlike Pilgrims, Run Little Chillun climaxes Act I with orgiastic Pilgrim rites by moonlight, Act II with a pandemonious Baptist revival meeting. At both gatherings everybody sings like mad, but the voodoo-haunted Pilgrims' chorus is no match for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Aug. 23, 1943 | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

The beauty of Munda airfield on this August afternoon was not in the gutted, smoldering landscape. It was wholly due to the presence there of dirty, sour-smelling, bloodied American troops poking about in the smoky rubble looking for souvenirs. Among their souvenirs were 1,671 dead Japanese (so far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Beautiful Munda | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Boeing's worst feature was its disjointed Plant No. 2, far enough up Seattle's Duwamish River so that fuselages from the No. 1 plant had to be put on barges to reach final assembly. First, Phil Johnson tackled Boeing's sales problem-to get the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION,GOVERNMENT: Boeing Needs 9,000 Men | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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