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Unstuck? Then at week's end came brighter reports. Heavy and medium U.S. bombers unleashed two days of concentrated raiding on the docks of Tunis. The waterfront of that seaport was left in flames over a distance of ten blocks. Allied fighter operations were suddenly on the increase. P-38s (see p. 83) made a sweep across Tunisia's waist to attack Axis concentrations near Sfax. One dispatch told of Allied paratroops occupying an airdrome from which British Spitfires took off 30 minutes later to challenge the Luftwaffe...
...that U.S. radio had not done before. He wanted to explain England to Americans by short-waving his dramatized observations of the English. Sunspots and short-wave incorrigibility spoiled U.S. reception of four of his seven broadcasts from Britain. Last week, at home under the happier auspices of U.S. medium wave, Corwin tried again-and scored...
...Last January there were 2,836 long, short and medium wave transmitters in the world (North and Central America, 1,398; South America, 508; Europe, Russia and Turkey, 472; Asia, 216; Oceania, Australia & New Zealand, 165; Africa, 77). This showed a six-year increase of some...
...Started primarily for the purpose of equalizing competition among second-rate horses, claiming races (in which any starter may be bought for a sum fixed beforehand) have become a major medium of horse trading...
...Department was stumped. As Christmas approached, U.S. soldiers were being flooded with the greatest mass of mail in history-in six weeks 14,000,000 lb. of it (including parcel post), enough to fill a medium-sized cargo ship or 2,000 cargo planes. In the last few weeks the Army Postal Service has delivered 11,000,000 letters a week...