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...Colonel "Randy" Lovelace is the big, mild, ex-Mayo-clinic man who last July made the world's longest parachute jump 40,200 feet). Colonel Lovelace announced that by next year the U.S. will have 100,000 airplane ambulance beds. Latest released figures on air ambulance transport were given by Lieut. Colonel Richard Meiling of the Air Surgeon's Office: since the autumn of 1942, the Air Transport Command has evacuated, by air, 125,000 patients. In one area, the 12th Air Force moved 25,000 sick & wounded with only one death en route...
Last April, with much hoopla, Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly gave the voters a preliminary peek at the new Chicago subway. Last week, six months later, the first "official" train went through. The longest-promised (50 years), costliest ($6,938,000 per mile), shortest (4.9 miles) subway in the world was now open for business...
Most important of all, Sinkiang presents new statesmen in China with the problem their predecessors faced with signal lack of success for 150 years-the problem of land frontiers. China's eastern and southern frontiers are sea and mountain; but in the north and west China shares the longest land frontier in the world with Russia. Corrupt and ignorant statesmen of the Manchu dynasty, brutal provincial war lords understood nothing of the art of world politics; Russo-Chinese relations were traditionally...
...busy day for King George VI. In rapid succession he received Field Marshal Smuts, the new Portuguese Ambassador, Ernest Bevin, Sir Alexander Cadogan (pronounced Ka-dug´-gan). But one of the longest audiences of the day was reserved for the sharp-eyed, thin-lipped commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain, Texas-born Ira Clarence Eaker...
...tenure as company commander was the longest of any man's thus far--August 32 to September 19. Finger saw the company off on its furlough, and was held over during the reorganization period when the company returned...