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...Near Targets. In the flexible Allied air command, the Doolittle and Coningham forces often meshed for common operations. Thus a target of both was the railway system which threads Sicily's mountains and connects its ports, enabling the Axis to shift its reserve forces quickly...
...became Prime Minister. To the post of Foreign Minister came tough-minded, able Numan Menemencioglu, probably the most clever and hard-headed member of the trio which now guides Turkey's destiny and a man who follows only one policy: that which best serves his nation. With this shift, direct control of foreign affairs passed from Saracoglu's hands, but Turkey's international relations have remained his principal interest...
...know exactly how far they must bore. (Long John expects to get through in four months.) To help his men Long John several years ago designed and built a huge, seven-ton drill carriage which uses six bits instead of four. Added incentives are high wages and bonuses, three-shift operations. Most effective of all, Long John is the kind his men understand. He can drink them under the bar on nights off, is uproarious with barroom jokes...
...paper profession change gradually under the impact of powerful influences: the Depression, the rise of the American Newspaper Guild, the invasion of city rooms by women, the development of news magazines, the counterpull of radio, the expansion of government information agencies. The change he believes most important is the shift in emphasis from factual, objective news reporting to a standard of mixing opinion with fact to approximate full truth. Says he: "If you mean by objectivity absence of convictions . . . [and] uncritical acceptance of things as they are ... the hell with...
...with hundreds of newsmen & women, sparked with many an engrossing anecdote (for example, about the New York Herald Tribune's onetime ban on words like "blood" and "sexual"; the bizarre way staffers on the old Paris Herald lived; the innards-corroding strain of working on the "lobster" (night) shift, where "every meal is breakfast...