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...Headway. But the Great Blueprint seemed to be making some headway, particularly since all three of the conferring nations have agreed that "participation is not enough"-that the world's peace must be guaranteed by the joint use of military force. How to make that guarantee effective by the use of U.S. military forces, without really impairing U.S. sovereignty? That was the problem that still faced the conference at week...
...woeful lack of music. True, there is an abundance of the lush tunes of Mr. Kern, but even the music of that able composer must suffer when there are no voices to do it justice. Miss Patti Pickens, the star, struggles bravely, but is unable to make much headway against a cast of non-singers, attempting to talk the tunes...
Like the Progressive Conservatives, the C.C.F. is counting heavily on Canadian impatience with wartime restrictions. But. like the Progressive Conservatives, the C.C.F. has made almost no headway in Quebec. Nevertheless, if it comes out of the next election with the most determined group in a divided Parliament, C.C.F. might form the first socialist government north of the Rio Grande...
During 20 prewar years Ranney's idea made no headway among oilmen, but he found that his scheme was just as good for tapping sources of water and gas. He drilled Ranney horizontal water wells in London and Lisbon and for 20 U.S. industrial plants, started a $20.000,000 water well in Paris just before the war. In Sydney, Australia, a Ranneywell yields...
...futile searches for hills high enough for observation posts or long waits for observation planes from the Air Corps. One West Pointer, Major (now Colonel) William Wallace Ford, a private flyer for seven years, knew the solution: light planes attached to each field-artillery .battalion. Wallie Ford made little headway until the next summer when light plane manufacturers lent a dozen puddle jumpers for the 1941 maneuvers. A new colonel named Dwight Eisenhower was impressed. So was Lieut. Colonel Mark Clark. Flying observation posts soon were standard in the field artillery, ten to each infantry division, eight to each...