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...crew of the Philippine Clipper was at Wake when the first attack came-18 Jap planes that bombed and strafed the construction camp, the docks and fuel installations. The Clipper was ordered back to Honolulu. The Marines stayed on. Somehow they managed to sink a Jap cruiser and a destroyer. They knocked down two enemy planes...
Beyond the International Date Line, where it is always tomorrow, Wake lifts itself in three desolate sandy specks in the midst of a watery nowhere. A Clipper stop on Pan Am's famed trans-Pacific run, it boasted a small hostel, an imposing concrete air-raid shelter recently built, a catch basin for rain water, a hydroponic tank for growing vegetables, which the coral sand refuses to nurture...
Feature of the traveling exhibition was "This Shrinking World," a series of smaller and smaller globes of the earth measured in terms of travel time over the past 100 years, from 150 days of circumnavigation in 1840 to eight days in 1940, from clipper to Clipper. Using the British Whitley bomber with its 700-mile range as typical of most medium bombers today, pictograph charts show that the raider theoretically can carry 6,250 lb. of bombs for a distance of 50 miles, but that it can carry only one 500-lb. bomb for a distance of 700 miles...
...China Clipper in San Francisco, Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff stepped on U.S. soil at week's end for the first time in eight years. After a 24-day, 20,000-mile airplane journey from Kuibyshev, Comrade Litvinoff and his snowy-haired English wife looked like any bourgeois tourists who had not had enough sleep...
...other side of Africa, in British Nigeria, he boarded Pan American Airway's Cape Town Clipper, which was homeward bound on a test flight to the Belgian Congo and back. One day last week, Steinhardt landed in New York. For newsmen, the tall, angular man who has been observing the agony of Russia from inside had only: "Until I report in Washington I have nothing to say." At the White House, before the President left for Warm Springs, Steinhardt began his report. This week, with the President's return, he will read on from his diplomatic book...