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...Signal Corps this week had its eye on a brand-new weapon: falcons to intercept enemy homing pigeons...
...corset. (These "string bags" nicked the French battleship Strasbourg as she fled from the Battle of Oran, had crippled three heavy units of the Italian Fleet at Taranto, slowed the Vittorio Veneto in the Battle of Matapan, had crippled the Bismarck.) But this operation was being carried out by brand-new, twin-engined monoplane Bristol Beauforts, clean as whistles...
...four days of the first week of Franklin Roosevelt's unlimited emergency, 18 passenger liners and two modern freighters were drafted for Army and Navy. Grossing better than 200,000 tons, they included American President Lines' brand-new President Jackson and President Adams, its older trans-Pacific liners President Taft, President Pierce, President Coolidge and President Cleveland. American Export Lines lost its new Exporter and Executor, just completed for the India trade. Moore-McCormack, which now has 15 ships in the armed services, gave up Mormacpenn and Mormacwren from the South American run. Total of drafted passenger craft...
Therefore, as the Bismarck and Crete demonstrated, British sea-air power becomes progressively effective as it moves away from shore. Two aircraft carriers, the brand-new Victorious and the still unsunk Ark Royal, were able to cripple the most powerful battleship in the world just before it came within danger range of land air bases in France. Conversely, the British did not dare expose vulnerable aircraft carriers, which they call "floating blocks of flats," in the confined waters of the Aegean; and ships without planes consequently took an unmerciful beating...
...Four University of California trackmen (John Reese, Grover Klemmer, Dick Peter, Clarence Barnes): two-mile relay, feature race of Los Angeles' brand-new Coliseum Relays, in 7 min., 34.5 sec.; breaking by 1.3 sec. the world's record set by a team of U.S. Olympic stars (Hornbostel, Young, Williamson, Woodruff) at London...