Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they wish to write more than 200 words, they can send their dispatches by the even more uncertain courier planes that, since the invasion (Nov. 7-8) shuttle back & forth between Algiers and England...
Censorship. Most of the correspondents are with the Allied forward units in Tunisia. They write their dispatches and have them censored in the field, then send them by courier to "AF HQ" at Algiers. Dispatches are stamped "censored at source," wait their turn for cable space, are then sent to London...
...staff included Tipton Blish, Yale graduate (1927) and onetime man about Manhattan, Nathan Kaplan from the Bloomington (Ind.) Evening World, Photographer Edward Andros, who used to run a portrait studio in Mishawaka, Ind., and Private Grover Page Jr., son of the Louisville Courier-Journal's famed cartoonist. Public Relations Lieut. Peyton Hoge conceived the paper's slant and the division commander, Major General H. L. C. Jones., tolerated...
Three months ago the Louisville Courier-Journal (of which he was editor) and Manhattan's Freedom House (of which he was a founder) granted Agar a leave of absence. He went into active service as a lieutenant commander, leaving behind him his fourth book on U.S. polity, A Time for Greatness, expounding his new philosophy...
Protective equipment was moving steadily if slowly into cities in the "target areas." Auxiliary firemen were training. Test air-raid alarms were increasing. The Civil Air Patrol, of which Landis is particularly proud, was doing a bang-up job, flying a half million miles a week on courier and scouting work, though Army censorship kept its light under a bushel...