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...Pattern of Power. The aerial preparation began many days before the 24-hour blow at the coast. Part of this pattern of power was the R.A.F.'s series of night raids on Berlin and other German targets in the preceding fortnight, on Munich and Mannheim-Ludwigshafen last week. So was a strong daylight raid by U.S. Fortresses on Stuttgart. The immediate purpose of these raids was local destruction, but they also furthered the campaign to whittle away German fighter forces and pin them down far from the coasts...
...Lady Takes A Chance (RKO-Radio) takes quite a few. It takes a chance with one more treatment of a well-worn story-pattern (the Cowboy & the Lady), and emerges from the scrimmage with a broad grin to offset its black eye. It takes a chance with making the cowboy (John Wayne) rather more than a nice boy, the lady (Jean Arthur) rather less than a lady, and both of them rather more primordially interested in each other than the Hays Office likes to feel that people should be. Director William Seiter seems to have fallen just short...
...Future It Made. With a ship building backlog of nearly $30,000,000, Cargill, Inc. has no trouble fitting its new yard into the pattern of its postwar operations. To get lower freight rates for Port Cargill now, Cargill, Inc. has already bought the 115-mile Minnesota-Western R.R. which taps Minneapolis and the rich grainlands of central Minnesota. Thus, Cargill, Inc. has its own port at the head of the navigable Mississippi, its own railroad to supply...
...Weather in many parts of the U.S. fluctuates in a 23-year pattern; periods of maximum rainfall and drought occur at about that interval. By studying cycles, a scientist was able to forecast accurately in 1939 some of 1942's big floods...
...University of Kansas Professor Raymond Wheeler has in progress a vast project for measuring the rise & fall of civilization, has caught history repeating itself in cycles of 45, 90 and 510 years. He calculates that, if the pattern continues, civilization will slide into an abyss about 1960, begin a new Golden Age about...