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...freighter pilots fly along the Alaska highway, past Whitehorse to Fairbanks; its delivery flyers whip fighters and bombers close to Bering Strait to be turned over to Russia for the eastern front. Freighters, and bombers on the way to combat, cross central Canada to Greenland, Iceland, Britain. They blanket the Caribbean and sweep across Mexico. They fly down both sides of South America...
...foundry wedges for aircraft parts every week; in New Jersey a J.A. pool (which includes the Intricate Trinkets Co.) is making shipping blocks to protect aircraft pumps in transit. And in Pittsburgh the Sesame Specialty Co. (all girls) is looking for foreign business: they have an incendiary bomb blanket already approved by the U.S. Bureau of Mines...
...Ahead was a projected itinerary that most reporters dream about. Lee hopes some day to roll into Nanking with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, into Manila with General Douglas MacArthur, and down the main street of Tokyo with Admiral Halsey and his sailors, Major General Vandegrift and his marines, under a blanket of U.S. planes "so thick that they hide the rising...
When the sky is absolutely clear, radiation from the ground is maximum, and the thermometer should theoretically go down to 60 below or less. Actually a drop of 47° below ground temperature is the greatest yet recorded. On a foggy night the moisture blanket prevents radiation and there is no drop in the thermometer. On a partly cloudy night the thermometer records the passage of clouds, rises as much as 20° within four minutes when a cloud passes over. The molecules of water in the air, whether as droplets or as invisible humidity, reflect heat waves from...
...This blanket conservatism was proper enough. But it understated the long-term outlook for some of the company's juiciest properties. I.T. & T. has poured $62,000,000 into Compañia Telefónica Nacional de Españia, famed in the Spanish Revolution for its indestructible Madrid office building.* Telefónica has been doing all right, although not for its parent. The state of I.T. & T.'s $40,000,000 investment in the European properties of International Standard Electric is more obscure: its manufacturing plants in Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France are now presumably...