Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand of the millions of U.S. citizens who listen to radio news commentaries every day got a closer look at the men they hear. Variety published a chart (headed "Gabbers' Dun & Bradstreet"), that listed the experience and political inclinations of 30 of radio's best-known commentators. For what it was worth, Variety also undertook to rate them in merit. Some of the findings...
Perpetual Gloom. The first target was an arms factory at Takahagi. Then, in quick succession as the battleships (with cruisers closer inshore adding their quota) headed south at better than 20 knots, came engineering works at Hitachi, a copper refinery at Shibauchi and a complex of munitions plants and steel mills at Mito...
...sailor has come closer to being burned alive than anybody who has ever survived. Last week the Naval Medical Bulletin reported that flaming gasoline had burned 83% of the body surface of a 19-year-old sailor...
...still bigger than the Indianas, appeared in the more dangerous waters off Muroran, at the mouth of Hokkaido's Volcano Bay. They were the Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin, and they took the Nihon Steel Works and the Wanishi Iron Works as their target, while screening craft darted closer inshore to shoot at smaller bull's-eyes...
...Chinese people (who called him "Old Leatherface") and to American airmen in his command, the news marked the end of a great era. Closer to Chiang Kai-shek than any U.S. military man, Chennault had, said one Chinese, "endeared himself to China more than any other foreigner since Marco Polo." Said one U.S. pilot: "We would rather fight with Chennault than any other man in the world...