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LETTERS HOME-Arranged and edited by Mina Curtiss-Little, Brown...
...spring of 1942 Mrs. Mina Curtiss was in Iowa, conducting a radio program and driving around the state to find out how the families of soldiers & sailors felt about the war. When she read a shoe-box full of letters a soldier had written his mother, she "decided that there were neighbors all over the United States who not only would want to read letters from their own sons and husbands but who would be hungry, as I was, for every bit of firsthand information they could get about the lives of our men overseas." From all over...
Married. Oscar Ulysses Zerk, 65, millionaire inventor of the Zerk-Alemite lubricating system; and Adele Zerk, 20, a filing-clerk; in Kenosha, Wis. In the Caldwell, NJ. Curtiss-Wright plant, a letter signed by Mr. Zerk attracted Miss Zerk, who wrote to inquire about the similarity in names. After two months of correspondence, Mr. Zerk phoned Miss Zerk, proposed, journeyed to Caldwell, took her home to his Kenosha estate...
...aircraft propellers. To test homemade ones, he constructed a 300-ft. railway, mounted props on flatcars, learned which kinds had the greatest pull. His neighbors thought him mad. The upshot: patents on an electric controllable-pitch propeller, for which he draws royalties from such war-busy plants as Curtiss-Wright and Britain's Bristol Aeroplane...
Guam, Too. Douglas and Curtiss dive-bombers roared out of the predawn to smack the twin, 15-mile-long islands of Saipan and Tinian, while Grumman Hellcats provided cover and strafing. Later in the day a second strike was launched on schedule. A smaller delegation of Navy pilots bombed U.S.-owned Guam, 85 miles farther south, for the first time since the Japs seized it in December...