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...American Legion last week elected a new national commander: Seaborn P. Collins Jr., 42, a wartime transport pilot who runs a realty business in Las Cruces, N. Mex. He succeeded Arthur J. Connell of Middletown, Conn., who led the Legion's "Back-to-God" movement and who, Legionnaires said, may be the last national commander dating from World War I. The not-so-new veterans of World War II are taking over the Legion. At last week's convention they were determined to fight off criticism that veterans' benefits had gone...
...ensuing battle landed them both in court, where, after due consideration, Magistrate Paul Bennett decided "that a citizen has the right to board a bus whenever it is stationary." The magistrate's decision knocked EDC out of the headlines and rattled teacups all over London. The outraged London Transport Executive ordered conductors to defy the court and to go right on discouraging between-stop boarding in the interest of safety, but to do so with delicacy, tact and common sense. The bus drivers' union demanded a "fight to get this bus jumping made a punishable offense," which would...
Watching from his island stronghold of Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek appealed in the name of humanity to "all Chinese," whatever their political persuasion, and to all "foreign friends" for flood and famine relief to save the mainland from disaster. He did more: he sent some of his own transport aircraft to drop 60 tons of rice over the worst-hit mainland provinces. The generalissimo did all this despite the cluck-clucking of the U.S. State Department that such assistance ought not to be rendered to enemy regimes. In so doing, Chiang, a practicing Christian, showed more magnanimity, good sense...
...helped other industries, and better-equipped war plants were able to improve production of civilian goods. For example, the U.S. sent $126 million worth of badly needed machine tools to the British aircraft industry. While used primarily for military production, the tools can also be used to make civilian transport planes and parts...
...m.p.h., have a range of more than 2,000 miles, and climb faster than some World War II fighter planes. It can carry a cargo load of 24 tons, equivalent to four 155-mm. howitzers, three 2½-ton trucks, six jeeps and two half-tracks. As a transport, it can pack in 150 fully equipped troops...