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...state of readiness prescribed for Army aircraft prior to the attack required them to be ready for flight only after four hours' notice. ^The aircraft warning system, which was remanned about 8:30 a.m., December 7, 1941, failed during the balance of that day to furnish any reliable information of enemy aircraft returning to their carriers...
...equipment. Every day at Kokomo four fully equipped boats are put on a flatcar, shipped to Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf shipyards, there hoisted to the davits of a new U.S. cargo vessel. Day after Franklin Roosevelt announced his Victory Program, Alden Chester wired the Maritime Commission, offered to furnish all lifeboats and life rafts needed for the entire merchant-marine building program-without subcontracting...
Pictorial maps, diagrams and descriptive labels point out that U.S. coastlines are reasonably safe from bombings of the Coventry type. They also point out, however, that the U.S. has a back door through the Canadian wilderness direct to the vital Minnesota iron mines which furnish the raw material for half the world's supply of steel, to the Sault Ste. Marie locks through which passes all the ore, to Niagara Falls which supplies 37% of New York's hydro electric power. Whether the U.S. can be repeatedly bombed via the back door depends on sea-lane control which...
...weird musical effects and somber, "arty" camera angles, "Ladies in Retirement" packs as much terror and suspense as a dozen of Hollywood's more pretentious spinetinglers. There are a couple of shots of mist-covered marshes to lend atmosphere at the beginning, and the musical background does furnish a few minor chords at the right moments; otherwise the story moves along--with its train of sinister over-tones--of its own weight. The effect lies in the story itself, and in some excellent direction, not in the well-aimed camera that has made so many films seem far better than...
...Angeles County Defense Council is Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz. He can call into almost instant action some 200,000 operatives. His force includes regular cops and 15,000 emergency deputies, Legionnaires, Boy Scouts and air-raid wardens, Red Cross doctors and nurses, an air squadron of civilian flyers, who furnish their own planes...