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...night the R.A.F. sent 1,000 heavy bombers against Stuttgart, Amiens and Munich, dumping a record bomb load of 3,360 tons. On the day before that, U.S. day-flying bombers from Britain had attacked Brunswick. On the day after, the U.S. heavies struck again, this time at Augsburg and Ulm. After dark the R.A.F. swarmed out again, to Amiens and Clermont-Ferrand. Next day the U.S. punch fell on Vienna; at night the R.A.F. attacked Sofia...
...small Blairsville (pop. 5,002), bought up the only industry in town-it was shut down -got the Navy to equip the plant, and began to turn out heavy-caliber shells. He kept on scouting U.S. industry for more bargains, bought the Quimby Pump Co., whose Newark and New Brunswick (N.J.) plants had a sizable backlog of Navy and Maritime Commission orders. To get further diversification he set up a new division of the Porter Co. and plunged into the gas & oil business. Although still on an experimental basis, he grossed a tidy $250,000 last year from wells...
Canoe Expert Adney gives lessons to New Brunswick's Micmac and Malecite Indians in their forgotten art: canoe making. He sews the bark with spruce roots. There are 100 Adney-built scale models in the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va. Adney also has another interest. He believes vocal sounds in every tongue express common mental reactions. On this theory he explains similarities between European and North American Indian speech. Example: in the language of the Algonquian Indian, mundo means God or, literally, "protecting hand"; in Anglo-Saxon, mund meant hand. Explains Adney: "[By this method] I have cracked...
...Take-Off. On the first day a fleet of U.S. heavy Fortresses and Liberators, covered by 1,000 fighters, roared out from Britain to launch the big push against the aircraft centers of Leipzig, blasted the night before by 1,000 R.A.F. bombers, Oschersleben,. Gotha, Bernburg, Brunswick, Halberstadt, Tutow, and even faraway Posen in conquered Poland. That night the massive Lancasters and Halifaxes of the R.A.F. trundled out to shower down 2,240 tons of bombs in a raid on Stuttgart over 450 miles from London...
More than 2,000 U.S.A.A.F. bombers and fighters, the greatest strike the U.S. has launched, swept in bright daylight across the Channel, hit Leipzig again, hit Oschersleben, hit Gotha, hit Bernburg, hit Brunswick, hit Halberstadt, hit Tutow, hit Posen. It was a big, bewildering show...