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...advanced electronics was made by the War Service Information Office last night. Those qualifying for the program will be assigned to the Navy Radio School in Chicago as Seamen. First Class, and will be given a course on the theory and operation of submarine detection and radio finder apparatus, communication equipment, and other electronic devices...
...London the U.S. delegates will meet with those of Great Britain and the refugee governments. They will discuss methods of helping devastated countries to restock books and scientific apparatus; how to give U.S. university training to selected students from those countries. They will also consider forming "as soon as practicable, a United Nations organization for educational and cultural reconstruction...
Empty Heads. The new methods were parented by a four-year-old Boston research firm headed by a lanky, sharp-chinned, young M.I.T. graduate, Richard Morse. His researchers call themselves "specialists in nothing." They were not the first to work in their rarefied field, for high-vacuum apparatus is an old tool in the laboratory and in small-scale manufacturing. But Morse's National Research Corp. developed machinery which for the first time makes it possible to use a high vacuum in large-scale mass production...
...once, rain and fog were welcome. When the word came to move, the weather hid the little party of 20 and their six truckloads of equipment-radio apparatus, tents, personal effects. Twenty-seven hours later the A.A.C.S. barge scraped to a landing at Munda. It was the first Air Forces unit to reach the island...
...summary of work done, told how air cargoes of vital raw materials arrived only a few hours before the last reserves were scraped from the bottom of U.S. stockpiles. Without planeloads of mica, quartz crystals, tantalate, columbite, industrial diamonds and rare drugs, the production lines of magnetos, electrical apparatus, stainless steel and medicines would have stopped dead...