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...consultant on the polishing of Caltech's famed 200-in. Mt. Wilson telescope. Since 1926 Porter and an enthusiastic partner, Editor Albert G. Ingalls of the Scientific American, have made telescope-making a worldwide hobby; their stargazing clubs now stretch from the U.S. to Java...
...Company "old salts" raised, a pertinent question at the same time--while he was on watch. "Where is the Joe-Pot," said he, referring to that omnipresent reminder, of shipboard tradition, the Java kettle...
...Surabaya, on the island of Java, was not sleeping. Lights glittered along the waterfront, indicating that the Jap was making full use of this great shipping and naval base he had torn from the Dutch. Out of the dawn swept a formation of Liberator bombers, their exhausts glowing red. For 70 minutes they "buzzed" the city, bombing warehouses, railroads, docks. Most important target was the big oil refinery. As the bombers winged homeward to their Australian base, flames from the refinery could be seen for 140 miles. It was the longest raid of the Pacific war-2,400 miles round...
...Japs are bound to feel such losses, but they have many hundreds of planes tucked away on 60-odd airdromes along the arc from Java to the Solomons. After four raids on Vunakanau, Rapopo and Lakunai airfields near Rabaul within the last fortnight, American crews could still count around 200 Jap planes, and the force scattered along the south Pacific front probably totals 1.500 to 2,000-a good many more than the Allies have mustered in the same theaters...
...will accord the honor of independence to the Philippines in the course of the current year. . . . We shall take measures envisaging participation of native populations in the Government to an extent commensurate with their ability. . . . We intend to realize this state of affairs as early as possible in Java . . . and Burma...