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...meet the Jap when it found him. Last week it found him every time, and found him before he was able to get at his bombing objectives. For that, the few remaining veterans of A.V.G. and the youngsters of the Army Air Forces' Twenty-Third Pursuit Group could thank the wondrous Chinese air-raid warning system...
...Washington correspondents, Godwin is known as Punkinhead and The End Man (because he was the one who always ended White House press conferences with a "Thank you, Mr. President...
...Private Shearer was no radio engineer. He thought he was off the air. Leaning back, he murmured into a live mike an anthem of his own: "Thank the Lord. H. V. Kaltenborn...
Everybody had Harold Ickes to thank, and not many thought to do it. Oilmen had swooned in 1941 when "Horrible Harold" was appointed Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense. One Tulsa tycoon had growled: "Ickes is captain of our souls. My day is absolutely ruined." But it was Ickes last summer who took up the crusade for the pipeline which they had all futilely talked about...
...fighting service in World War I. He was busy at administrative work in Washington, and now can thank his stars he was. In the midst of the biggest air-training program in history, he can look back to 1918 for experience. As Assistant Director of Military Aeronautics that year, he was boss of 30 training schools, 15,000 officers, 125,000 enlisted men. He was also a devoted follower of his old flying mate, spectacular bemedaled Billy Mitchell...