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...could tell. A cynical European statesman, appraising OWI's work, had cracked: "Ah, Americans ! Masters of publicity, babes in propaganda!" But General Eisenhower said: "We don't much care whether you call it ABC, XYZ, or OWI, we need OWI's personnel and physical apparatus for . . . work in [occupied] and liberated countries...
...Allies were less successful in coping with another once-secret Nazi weapon, according to a German submarine commander at Flensburg last week. He said that the acoustic torpedo (TIME, Oct. 11, 1943), fitted with a microphone-controlled steering apparatus which made it follow the sound of a ship's propellers, proved 90% more effective than older models...
Closing out Shepherd Hall broadcasting with two candidates hovering over two lone instruments in a bare room yesterday morning, members have spent the weekend completing the moving of radio apparatus. Aided by more and new soundproofing space, the Network is now technically equal or superior to most Boston stations...
...easy to estimate the degree of Germany's physical destruction. The long arm of Allied bombing and the progress of the Armies had destroyed much of Germany's productive apparatus, notably the railroad system, had left much else spectacularly untouched. Quite possibly both the appearance of Germany's destruction and the appearance of her survival were deceptive...
Items : ¶ The bans on the making of dozens of civilian items (e.g., telephones, fire apparatus, sunglasses) were lifted as WPB dropped 41 more of its production control orders. In a few months, almost a third of some 733 controls which now strait-jacket industry will be dropped. Only enough controls will be kept to make sure that the armed services get what they need...