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Midway's commissioning was a reminder to the U.S. public that the Navy has worked fast & furiously at its bases be yond Hawaii since it got the wherewithal from a grudging Congress. Next week there will be a brief pause in the clatter of work on two other outposts - Johnston and Palmyra Islands. The ceremony will be repeated again and two of the Navy's flying lieutenants will take over as C.O.s...
Naval and marine units occupied Iceland, which lies directly in the battlefield of the Atlantic. This act, which constituted the first U.S. plunge into cold action, was of tremendous strategic importance. It meant that a new visible weight, not just the clatter of it, was actually beginning to loom up in the west against the Germans. At the moment, it loomed not very large -but it loomed...
...home, Canajoharie in New York's Mohawk Valley, a model town without looking like it, gave it an art museum and a library, put boxes of flowers on the village's lampposts (an idea he picked up in Hungary). In the old days before the clatter-clang of modern machinery, he hired a pianist to relieve the workers' tedium. Last year, on top of above-average wages, the company set aside $466,249 for its employes (including old-age benefits and a Christmas bonus of $3 times the years of an employe's service). But this...
...bearded, black-robed Greek, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Rumanian monks who live on Mount Athos arrived there for many reasons-religion, disappointment in love, political conspiracy, seeking sanctuary against political or criminal punishment. They include several former Greek lunchroom proprietors who fled the clatter of U.S. civilization. They live in two kinds of monasteries: cenobite (communistic) and idiorrhythmic (allowing private property, which reverts to the monastery). Many of them lead a truly monkish life of prayer and Church scholarship, a shabby life without bathing or toothbrushing, with a meatless diet and only brief snatches of sleep, because "sleep inflames...
Airplanes turned the trick in East Africa last week. Resistance of the Italian Empire, which had appeared to be stiffening, suddenly collapsed. Everywhere the extra factor which made the difference was a clap of bombing and a clatter of strafing by planes of the British Empire, for the British had learned the lesson taught by the Germans in Poland, Norway and the Low Countries: that an air force can be used in lieu of artillery to strike where artillery cannot reach because of distance or rough terrain...