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...Russians took from China about $2 billion worth of Japanese-built heavy industrial equipment-rolling mills, hearth furnaces, synthetic gasoline plants, steel plants, etc. Last January, Peking announced that the Russians had begun to replace some of the machinery. At about the same time, a 1951 production target rate was announced; it will probably bring the Manchurian output to about 50% of the rate during the Japanese occupation...
...keeping on a day-to-day alert to retaliate against attack on the U.S. Then the movie joins 17 officers and men aboard a B-36, stays with them on a 9,000-mile simulated combat flight on a 39-hour route from Texas to Iceland and back. Target: Detroit...
...bomber approaches the target, it climbs to seven miles and every crew member dons arctic clothing and oxygen masks against the thin, cold air. Below, a radar unit keeps an eye on the plane's approach, checks the accuracy of its simulated bomb drop. Finally, while Detroit slumbers, unaware that it has been "demolished," the crew members relax from a job which-to them-is already routine. Audiences are more likely to find the trip fascinating, reassuring and, in all its implications, more than a little frightening...
When Parliament reassembles, Winston Churchill will undoubtedly return to the attack. A juicy target: the April 10 budget. Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell has warned that the budget news will be less pleasant than he had hoped because of British rearmament...
...cockpit of the F-94, a wealth of information crackles in on the headsets of the pilot and his radarman. Ground radars are tracking the target and feeding their reports to a central station (location secret). Back come crisp directions for the local G.C.I. (Ground Control Intercept) to relay to the planes aloft. For a time there is nothing for the crew to do but fly the directed course at 600 m.p.h...