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...sold to the present management, WBMS Incorporated, in July, 1948, having lost $100,000. Since that time the station has lost an additional $50,000. One of the troubles the new owners inherited from the old was an FCC license which permitted only daylight broadcasting on the frequency used. This meant and still means that more commercials must be crammed into operating time to pay salaries and upkeep...
...Hardy & Hunted." In Egypt Maclean joined the S.A.S. (Special Air Service), a select, hand-picked force of parachute commandos who were dropped into the North African desert to destroy enemy installations. In 1942, Maclean, by then a captain, was sent to Persia, where in broad daylight he kidnaped Collaborationist General Zahidi and popped him into a plane bound for Palestine. It was ro wonder that when Prime Minister Churchill asked for the appointment of "a daring Ambassador-leader" to contact Tito's "hardy and hunted guerrillas," the choice fell on parachuting Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean...
Murdering, pillaging and sometimes burning, they followed hit & run tactics perfected against the Japs, slipped back to their mountains soon after daylight...
...last week 1,300 men and 200 women were placermining on the Avequí, or in the Uriman, as the surrounding area is called. Diving deep to scoop up the sparkling sand, miners-male & female-wore few clothes or none. Diamonds were the one & only concern during the daylight hours...
This movie is well worth seeing for its combat shots alone. Taken by the AAF in action over Germany, these pictures capture the perspective of air warfare--the instant disaster inherent in any given moment. The shots of daylight bombing of a German ball-bearing plant are remarkable examples of modern war's precision...