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...undertook its longest operational flight of the war last week-nearly 1,800 miles to and from Cracow and Katowice, Poland, where leaflets were dropped. Hard-boiled Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal does not have many illusions about winning friends and influencing people with pamphlets. The raid had more tangible fruits in the way of experience...
Occasion was a White House press conference-longest in many a month. The conference started slowly, with routine questions. But veteran correspondents noticed the President's nervous swiveling sensed that he had something important on his mind. They were right. Queried one: Was it true, as General Marshall was reported to have said the day before, that the Pacific Fleet had been reinforced by an undisclosed number of fighting planes...
Dynamic Engineer Kaiser does not recognize nature's other obstacles any more than he kowtows to time. He has headed companies which helped build the Grand Coulee Dam (largest in the world), the Boulder and Bonneville dams, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (longest in the world). When slides threatened to hold up work at Coulee, he froze a hillside solid to keep it in place. At Shasta Dam, which he is now building in northern California, he ran a ten-mile conveyor belt smack over a mountain when railroads refused to run a spur to his construction camp...
Last week death came to Nobel Prize Winner Sir Austen Chamberlain's widow," the Lady of Locarno." Ivy Muriel, Lady Chamberlain, may be remembered longest because one day in Switzerland she gave what cables called "the world's most im portant picnic." This was at Locarno in 1925. Those tireless peace men, Aristide Briand and Austen Chamberlain, were trying to per suade the Republic of Germany to enter the League of Nations and make a final peace pact. The Republic had its finger in its mouth. Then Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, her husband's ablest helper, rose...
...last week, Torger Tokle had become America's favorite snow bird. Ten days ago, in a meet at Leavenworth, Wash., he soared 273 ft., longest jump ever recorded in North American competition. Then he flew back to New York to compete three days later in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Cup meet at Bear Mountain, his first and favorite hill. Most Norwegians frown on skyscraping ski jumps built for headlines rather than for sport-like that at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, where jumpers have leaped 300 ft. The Bear Mountain ski jump is just a sporting little hill...