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...will be off again -and a week or so later still another of TIME'S writers will begin taking his shots again for all known diseases, getting out his overseas uniform, and waiting for a 5:00 a.m. call to be ready to take off on the next Clipper from LaGuardia Airport...
From India came Jack Belden, now completely recovered from the hardships of the Burma campaign and his long trek across the mountains and jungles with General Stilwell. From America came Photographer Eliot Elisofon, now in Casablanca with Major General George S. Patton Jr.-and by Clipper and boat via Argentina came LIFE Editor Noel Busch on a special assignment to South Africa, to join Hart Preston, fresh out of Ankara, who was last heard from hedgehopping kraals, crocodiles and elephant herds in Zululand...
...January he left again for Africa, via Atlantic Clipper this time. In Cairo he started planning big U.S. engineering projects. He went to Eritrea to supervise some of these projects, working in temperatures as high as 120°. After six months Lou Claterbos' health cracked and he was ordered back to the U.S. "Go by boat," said the doctor. "Planes are too exciting and you do not get any rest...
With a Cornell engineering degree in his hip pocket, Charlie went to work for Chicago's American Shipbuilding Co. in 1900, picked up tricks of the trade for two years, quit to buy an ancient, near-dormant shipyard at Manitowoc, Wis. It had been a clipper shipyard since 1847, and Charlie built one wooden ship for tradition's sake, then switched to steel. To speed things along he rounded up a wide-awake, corner-cutting engineering staff, set up large machine shops to make boilers and engines, shape every piece of steel used in a West-built ship...
Biggest challenge to OPA's new get-tough enforcement program is neither the tire bootlegger nor the gas-coupon clipper but the widespread evasion of controls on rent. OPA last week swung one of its hardest punches, ordered rents reduced and stabilized on Oct. 1 in 54 more defense-rental areas scattered across the whole country, bringing under federal rent control areas where a total of 50,000,000 people live. In 53 of these areas rents are cut back to March i levels; in the 54th (Chateau, Okla.) the ceiling is based on the preceding October...