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...victory in the Battle of the Atlantic, were hard at work on "the largest naval bases ever built." Whether or not they were the largest ever, it seemed likely that the new French bases would be pretty good. They were the latest effort of the Nazis' Busiest Beaver, Dr. Fritz Todt,* and last week the Third Reich characteristically rewarded him-by giving him another huge...
...Richard L. Banks Jane Herbert, Wellesley Robert J. Bell Nancy Crowley, Radcliffe Eric H. Cawley Marianna Evans, Simmons Robert W. Clifford Ruth Hewitt, Wellesley Robert C. Enggass Janet Clarke, Chamberlain Charles P. Gabeler, Jr. Frances Hutchins, Pine Manor Edward F. Green Tamara Polevoy, Radcliffe Laurence K. Groves Nancy Moore, Beaver Richard F. Hunnewell K. Lawrence Bundy, Radcliffe S. Donald Russell Norma Dietz, Newton Elliott C. Lasser Phyllis Adler, Lafayette J. Drennan Lowell Martha Gallison, Brimmer-May John F. Otto, Jr. Virginia Lee Holt, Cincinnati, Ohio William P. Palmer Patricia Crehore, Radcliffe Arthur H. Phelan Mary Alexander, Mt. Holyoke Walter...
...economy and repairs while the Prime Minister concentrated on Britain's battles. That appeared to be the chief reason why he created the new office of Minister of State and filled it with small-bodied, huge-headed, 61-year-old Lord Beaverbrook. It is the dynamic, Canadian-born Beaver who as Minister for Aircraft Production has whipped & spurred, rammed & jammed British airplane building up to par and beyond (TiME, March 31). His rampaging, red-tape-slashing, to-hell-with-gentlemanliness methods are probably as great a threat as Britain has to offer to bottlenecks in military production, transport...
...work side-by-side with the Beaver, Winston Churchill also created another new office, the Ministry of Shipping & Transport. To it he appointed lanky, balding, soft-voiced Frederick James Leathers, 60, who rose from an office boy to head William Cory & Son, great British coal concern. Recently adviser on coal to the Shipping Ministry, he is now the first man ever charged with coordinating all British transport facilities-railroads, ports, highways. His long experience in international coal shipping will be devoted to the enormous job of keeping Britain's streams of materials in rapid, productive, bomb-defying movement from...