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...years the $462,000,000 International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. helplessly watched the Axis overrun one of its properties after another, from France to Shanghai, watched its earnings nose-dive with each new blitz. But last week hawk-nosed, Virgin Island-born I. T. & T. President Sosthenes Behn released an annual report for 1943 which showed that the war is finally working for, instead of against, his globe-girdling behemoth...
...Sorry. In the South Pacific a dive-bombing Japanese pilot threw his Zero into a vertical dive, released his time-fused bomb, caught up with it, was blown to bits...
Blue exhaust flames flicker like fireflies in the predawn darkness. On the flight decks of U.S. carriers, dive-bombers, torpedo planes and fighters are being revved tip. One by one they soar out, their red and green riding lights skimming lower over the shadowy superstructures of a multitude of warships. Gaining altitude they form in flights, circle, flock toward the dark horizon...
...contract is still only one-third completed, some other observations in Kaiser's explanation to stockholders were more pertinent. Fact is that Brewster is in a financial wilderness compounded of 1) Navy allegations of overcharges; 2) Brewster allegations of Navy underpayments; 3) British and Brewster counterclaims on terminated dive-bomber contracts; 4) a strong feeling on the part of Brewster's underprivileged stockholders that everyone has been underpaying them. Besides that, and despite Kaiser, the company has not been able to lure the Navy into placing any more orders, not even an experimental one of the kind that...
Lieut. Robert Hanson (Corsair), who crashed to death in a strafing dive, is runner-up with 25. Tied with Mahurin are Captain Donald Aldrich and Lieut. Kenneth Walsh (Corsairs...