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...what they decided to call '"Flying Fortresses." These, a post-War innovation, consist of trainloads of motorized trench digging and barbed-wire stringing machines of Gargantuan size. In three days each "Flying Fortress" is supposed to turn out a complete system of front line trenches for the sector which it covers and within a week all the "Flying Fortresses" working together can dig France in from the North Sea to the Sarre...
...Army colonel, he went to Yale, got his appointment to West Point while serving as an enlisted man in the regular army. His successor in the Panama Department is Major General Harold Benjamin Fiske who was last week promoted from brigadier and shifted from command of the Atlantic sector to command of the whole department. Large-boned, calm Major General Ed- win Baruch Winans, sportsman and socialite, commander of the 8th Corps Area (San Antonio), to duty with the General Staff in Washington. Son of a Michigan governor, he has the bearing and manners of a country gentleman...
...real battle front of education today lies in that sector where reside the philosophers of crisis. From these prophets of despair come cynical pronouncements as to the futility of all educational effort to change the social order. They point out that man in groups ever is moved by passion and not by reason. They foretell the inevitability of catastrophe. Other and more terrible world wars are inescapable...
...described the Hallams of the Upper West Side (Another Language). In their Park Avenue purgatory, the Langdons of A Saturday Night were more urbane. The Rimplegars of Brooklyn (Three-Cornered Moon) still hold the all time record for dulcet insanity. But the Blakeleys, who inhabit a presentable but unspecified sector, amuse at times...
...Long Beach, 13 schools were completely demolished. Eleven more were so badly damaged that it was doubtful that they would be rebuilt. The board of education appropriated $260,000 for temporary school buildings. The Compton Junior College and High School were destroyed. In the unincorporated sections of the quake sector. 10 other school buildings were total losses...