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...Lord Beaverbrook's son, R.A.F. Wing Commander Max Aitken, has said he believes the 177 has a 2,000-mile range with 1½-ton load. If so, it could probably fly the Atlantic with a half-ton load for token raids...
Shooting high the young ladies at Wellesley sent an invitation for 50 "selected" officers from the Naval Training School for a dance Saturday night. They're getting their bus-load all right, but it's made up of first-come-first-served stags, as the Navy maintains that all officers in the school are selected...
...tank commander also asks air support for urgent supplies. He lays out panels on the ground to show where materiel should be dropped. Even before the cases hit the ground the tankers know each load by the color of the parachutes (e.g., red for ammunition...
Meanwhile the transit labor situation gets worse weekly. Never overpaid, trolley conductors and bus drivers are scampering off to war jobs in droves. In Washington a bus driver was in such a hurry to quit that he jerked to a stop at a traffic light, left a load of puzzled passengers stranded at the curb (TIME, Sept...
General Hirschauer had a nice problem on his hands. The Luftwaffe had already let Germans know that as long as the Russians held out it would need the bulk of its strength on the eastern front. That put a bigger load than ever on the anti-aircraftsmen.. Yet the cities the Russians now bombed could not have adequate defenses, for the defenses were needed elsewhere. Chiefly they were needed in the tight Ruhr rectangle (15 miles wide and 35 miles long), where 51% of German industry is still concentrated...