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Last week the A.S.C. proudly announced its own air freight line. It is, properly, the longest in the world: 14,000 miles from A.S.C. headquarters at Patterson Field (near Dayton, Ohio) to Karachi, India. A big Liberator cargo plane (C-87) made the first round-trip run in twelve days. Outboard, it carried 8,300 lb. of fuel pumps, starters, magnetos and other critical replacements for the China-Burma-India theater. The return load was mainly damaged parts for rush repairs at the 300-odd depots and sub-depots...
...first night passed perilously. The Marines held three beachheads, the longest less than 100 yards from end to end, the deepest 70 yards inland. The Japs commanded the rest of the island. For every Marine who slept in a foxhole, two kept watch through the darkness...
...Chennault, perhaps more than to any other man, the Admiral's statement made excellent sense, held out a promise. Strangled by a Japanese land-sea blockade, General Chennault and his Fourteenth Air Force are operating at the end of a thin, 16,000-mile supply line, the longest in the world. A southeast China port through which can flow thousands of tons of needed war materiel from the U.S. is Claire Chennault's key to decisive victory. Only the Navy, knifing through the Gilberts toward Truk, and northward to Wake and Guam, while General Douglas Mac Arthur pushes...
...longest faces in Chungking today are worn by those who fear that inflation may yet have a profound effect on the silent peasant millions. For 30 years after Sun Yat-sen's 1911 Revolution the slow trend was toward peasant ownership of the parcels tilled; today a new and powerful land-owning class is in the making...
...monarch is a sort of father. . . ." The Duke & Duchess of Windsor were back in the Bahamas, their visit to the Duchess' Aunt Bessie Merryman in Boston having extended itself into the couple's longest U.S. stay-two months, mostly in Manhattan...