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...Allied aircraft no German target was now out of reach. Even fighter planes (P-51 Mustangs) ranged as far as western Poland on bomber escort duty and earned special congratulations from Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, commander of all U.S. strategic bombing forces in Europe. The German defensive air force was obviously weakened in numbers, if not in fighting quality. Relentless air pounding along the French invasion coast had created an almost deserted zone, 50 miles deep...
...Dies Committeeman who once proposed to investigate Playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) as a Communist,* was defeated by State Legislator Albert Rains. The C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, which had been quietly undermining Starnes in war-booming Gadsden (pop. 36,975) indulged in no loud boasting. Its prime target is lumbering Martin Dies himself, who must fight for his job in Texas' Second District next July...
...Target: Roadbeds. On the map of battle, Tokyo's first objective now be gan to assume shape: full control of the Peiping-Hankow railway. In 1938, the Chinese breached the Yellow river dikes, kept the enemy from this prize; last week, Japanese columns driving from north and south seemed to be close to attaining...
From day to day Europe could be certain of only one thing: the cruel, relentless hammering of the air preparation for The Day. The Continent's target cities groaned under the endless thump of bombs...
Charlton turned his typewriter against British entertainers who visited troops for only three weeks at a time. His special target was Britain's middle-aged comic music-hall darling, Grade Fields. White hall's brass hats rushed to defend her, demanded that the News be suppressed, declared that Winston Churchill "felt it unfair" that Gracie "should have been singled out." Monty was told that "certain other articles have not met with his [Churchill's] approval...