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...consistently recognized the fact that a free press inevitably makes mistakes and even unwarranted criticisms. Army's press section has grown from four officers, ten clerks to 18 officers, 40 clerks since Aug. 1. Of Marshall's stamp are others in Army's publicity apparatus (now being reorganized)-Major General Robert Richardson of the Cavalry; Lieut. Colonel Ward Maris of Field Artillery, no newsman but a discerning publicist of small patience with bureaucrats; Major Art Ennis of the Air Corps; Lieut. Colonel Ginsburgh, liaison officer between Under Secretary of War Patterson and the public, graduate of Harvard...
...former Germans went names, duties, pay, addresses, backgrounds of virtually every Panama Canal employe; of men who work on the Army's secret bomb sight; of mechanics who install fire-control apparatus on battleships; of plane designers; of Army intelligence officers' clerks who file, record or distribute in-&-outgoing secret or confidential matter for war plans, communications, the State Department; names of every U. S. motorboat owner, of confidential secretaries to President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull; names of all machine-tool makers...
...Research Laboratories in Schenectady last week unveiled a giant new X-ray machine, 1,000,000 volts strong, the biggest X-ray machine harnessed to industrial research. It is intended to find flaws not in flesh & bone but in big steel castings. G. E.'s 400,000-volt apparatus took an hour to X-ray four inches of steel. The new machine takes less than two minutes...
...until it reached Bagbag, 25 miles from Libya, and finally Sûdi Barrani, 55 miles in. The British hit and ran with tanks, armored cars and planes. They dynamited and salted a dozen Roman wells in the neighborhood. But the attackers were supplied with water trucks and apparatus to condense fresh from salt water...
...towns of the Southwest, in the honky-tonks of Memphis, in mountain hamlets in the Blue Ridge and the Cumberland, a perennial visitor for 25 years has been a lean, loquacious man, with a slight British accent and a portable recording apparatus. Grey-haired Arthur Edward Satherly is paymaster, musical coach, father confessor to the blues singers, hillbilly fiddlers, guitar-strummers, jug-players, washboard-slappers who make Columbia's Okeh* records by the dozen. In this grass-roots musical field, only Decca competes with Columbia. Decca's hillbilly man is David Kapp...