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...course in advanced electronics was made by the War Service Information Office last night. Those qualifying for the program will be assigned to the Navy Radio School in Chicago as Seamen. First Class, and will be given a course on the theory and operation of submarine detection and radio finder apparatus, communication equipment, and other electronic devices...
...discovered the Stevensons a few weeks ago, when he marveled at 25 Red Cross clubs-with lodgings, game rooms, snack bars, movies-which Bill had managed to set up in North Africa. And he wrote of Bumpy: "She is a sort of roving delegate, cheerer-upper, smoother-over and finder-outer for the whole Red Cross of Africa and half the Army...
...Congress as a tough investigator who tracks down the facts, bulldogs them, ropes them and brings them in, Representative Albert J. Engel has brooded since 1939 about Army extravagance.* Five months ago he got in his automobile, drove 4,500 miles, snooped through 47 war plants. Last week Fact-Finder Engel reported: both war plants and labor are making too much money at the taxpayer's expense...
...highly secret) for two years, the gun sight is a compact assembly incorporating an optical system, a small range finder and a complex instantaneous computing machine. Only arbitrary adjustment on it is a dial which the gunner sets for the wingspread (in feet) of the attacking plane. After that he frames the plane between illumined reticules (cross hairs or similar lines imposed on the field of vision), in a mirror on the sight, and keeps it framed there. He tracks it with the handle controls of his power-operated turret. When the enemy plane fills the space between the lighted...
...nose and a sensitive mouth, won a cake at an English fair and found him self in a maze of fifth columnists - the cake, intended for someone else, contained photographs of vital plans for the defense of Britain. Living on the edge of the underworld, tormented, sinister, frightened, the finder faced a double risk - years before, he had been guilty of the mercy killing of his wife. The Ministry of Fear is a master thriller and a remarkable portrait of a twisted character...