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Taking a tip from TIME, the Fort Wayne Ordnance Depot has organized a Short Shifters' Club of Detroit business and professional men who work four or more hours a day at the Depot. . . . Without their help the Depot could not meet its huge tonnage schedules in the face of an almost nonexistent labor supply in this area...
...following men were selected to occupy billets during the Semester leave: Michael J. Kingsley--New York Navy Purchasing Office; Lambert Kaspers--Thompsonville, Staton Island, New York; John A. O'Hara and Arthur A. Aschauer--Navy Aviation Supply Office and Depot, Philadelphia; Ben B. Graves--Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Washington; Mortimer J. Roth--Commander, Air Force, Atlantic Fleet; and John E. Keery--Boston Navy -Yard...
...remodeled chicken houses on the country estate of Cinemagnate Adolph Zukor, the North Clarkstown (N.Y.) artists and writers colony has operated the most deluxe civilian-defense "depot" in rural America. There, one recent night, lofty Playwright Maxwell Anderson dutifully watched for enemy planes, patiently waited for alarms, idly surveyed stocks of tools, food and medicine...
Than lying low in the old depot...
...Miles to Balikpapan. In the Southwest Pacific, 6-245 flew the distance from Boston to Kansas City (1,300 mi.) and back in a blow against a Jap equivalent of Ploesti-the oil depot of Balikpapan in Borneo. They destroyed at least seven oil reservoirs. All the raiders returned to their Australian bases...