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Last week the Japs began trying to bomb Wau, and were stung for their pains. In the second largest single day's battle in the whole Australian theater, 37 U.S. Lightnings, Airacobras and Kittyhawks went up to meet 70 Japanese Zeros and twin-engined bombers. Not a single U.S. plane was shot down. The Japs lost 21 Zeros, three bombers and twelve more fighters; three more bombers were seriously damaged as to be considered "probables." Score...
Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, stung into action, promptly demanded that all Government agencies concerned in the jumble tell him what was wrong, how it could be corrected. The U.S. hoped he could untangle the threads. Citizens hardly needed Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's plea to accept rationing as a wartime sacrifice (see p. 11). They had a demonstration that rationing, properly handled, is only a matter of self-protection...
...That campaign did two things. It made our own line of communications that much more secure, and it took something away from the Jap that he had had. The virulent, violent reaction was greater than we expected, so our attack must have stung him to the quick...
...four thin stacks, stepped up her speed to 20 knots. Her 4-in. deck guns were quick to answer the shells that screamed at her from every side. Before her explosive-laden bow piled into the dock gates of St.-Nazaire, she had sunk a Nazi flak* ship, stung many a shore battery with the last broadsides she would ever fire...
...other hand is a newly rich, successful business stung by Fly into self-appraisal. It found itself to be several things at once: a marvelous medium communicating news and home entertainment to scores of millions; a boiler room of advertising patter echoing in every cranny of the nation; (and much less continuously) a fountainhead of beautiful music, intelligent discussion, excellent reporting-all given to the people free. There was no complaint from the people. CBS and NBC indeed made plenty of money. But they pointed to the $8,000,000 a year they spent on their sustaining programs and affirmed...