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With these results in the Pacific, Pan Am last week announced plans for the Atlantic. This week the company starts an air-express service to Lisbon. When its new African run reaches Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo, Pan Am's freight and passenger service will girdle three-fourths of the world. Most airmen think the Africa-Singapore gap will be closed before the war is over...
...must import all but 5% of her oil, she has access by sea to perhaps 85% of the world's supply. Her consumption is 100,000,000 barrels a year, her problem, transportation. To supplement her own huge tanker fleet she has added Norwegian, Dutch, French and Belgian tonnage, as well as 80 U.S. tankers...
Scientists from M.I.T., Caltech, Stanford, Harvard, the U.S. Weather Bureau took part in the research and design, but the idea man behind the windmill is Palmer Cosslet Putnam, onetime geologist in the Belgian Congo, flyer for Britain in World War I, president (1931) of G. P. Putnam's Sons, Manhattan publishers. "So far as we know," ventures Inventor Putnam, "this is the first attempt to generate alternating current by means of the wind for interconnection with a distribution system."* Engineers are sure that wind-generated electricity will be no costlier than water-generated, may possibly prove cheaper...
Belgium. Disregarding the "humane motives" which prompted a Belgian family to harbor a grounded R.A.F. pilot in their home, a German military court gave the tip-off on growing Nazi apprehension by ordering one of the stiffest sentences since the occupation: death to the man, 70; his wife, 68; their daughter...
...gelatin-slick Leon Marie Joseph Ignace Degrelle, who later became leader of Belgium's Fascist Rexists, left Belgium for Mexico to fight for civilization and against the persecution of Catholics. Later he published a book about his experiences. But the Belgian Minister to Mexico said that Leon Degrelle had never been there...