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Although it is too early to say whether the Straus Trophy competition will continue throughout the war, inter-House athletics of some sort will continue among the three civilian Houses at least, according to Adolph W. Samborski '25, Director of Intramural Athletics...
Just as failure and defeat had in the past done much to aggravate inter-Allied and interservice frictions, now success was furthering cooperation. Bigger challenges and greater victories than Tunisia will both depend on and confirm this new amity...
Pearl Harbor found the U.S. Army with no real air transport beyond its long-starved domestic system (for inter-airdrome deliveries of engines, propellers and other freight). In January 1942, President Roosevelt ordered two squadrons of the 7th Heavy Bombardment Group to Mac-Arthur's relief, via the South Atlantic, Africa and India. To a friend one of the pilots of a 7th Group Liberator wrote: "The total weight of my plane was over 60,000 Ib. [standard maximum, 56,000]. I believe that was the first time an air unit ever moved with all its equipment...
...crumb popped into Pan Am's mouth: one of the five companies favored was Compañia Nacional Cubana de Aviacion, which Pan Am owns. The other two companies: Expreso Aereo Inter-Americano, S.A., for service between Miami and Havana; and Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM), Miami to Curaçao and Aruba...
Practical-minded Professor Kelly began on the ground. He used an electrical inter phone and radio transmitter to listen to scores of teacher-pupil conversations in the air. He analyzed the results and found no instruction "which might be said to be both complete and correct." Four instructors used 500 technical terms, of which only 70 were common to all four. One used 265 terms which were never used by the other three. Among them, they used 14 different expressions to instruct students to increase and 20 to reduce power, 33 for turns, 18 for describing control motions...