Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Random Harvest. In Yokohama, a sentry spotted two Japs in a forbidden area, fired in warning, cut the power line to a Red Cross doughnut factory, ruined 56,000 doughnuts...
Routine committee reports were acted on, and more details of a proposed marriage forum discussed. A sizable donation to the Red Cross was announced...
...bridal bouquet. Particularly annoying has been his constant buzzing in the public's ear about the horse & buggy way of running transcontinental trains so that passengers must change at Chicago. Last week he was at it again in full-page newspaper ads(see cut): "A hog can cross the country without changing trains...
...Francisco, or through cars attached to regular trains. In either case, the through train, or the cars, will pull into one Chicago terminal, then be shunted to a western road by way of Chicago's complicated maze of belt lines and yards. Fastest time for the cross-country trip will be cut from 67 hours to 59 hours...
Loran. When air lines cross the oceans, they will be guided by war-born loran (LOng RAnge Navigation), a whole new system of navigation which does not depend on celestial observations or hit-or-miss dead reckoning. The U.S. Coast Guard already operates 57 loran stations on the shores and islands of the Atlantic and Pacific. Each has an effective range of 600 to 800 miles by day, and up to 1,400 miles by night. A worldwide network of 70 stations is in the cards...