Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval superiority: ground commanders had expected the heavy bombings and shellings to pave the way for a nearly bloodless advance of the infantry. This expectation had not been realized, because the Japs had built so many bombproof bunkers, often cleverly using bomb craters as excavation for the log- and dirt-covered shelters. They could be licked only by extermination...
However on-station residents will be required to log out with the Duty Office if they expect to remain ashore any evening after 2300. Arrangements will be made next term for those who prefer to mess off-station to pay at Cowie only for the meals consumed there...
Aviation dopesters believe that CAB is about to break its application log jam so that civilian air transport can get off to a fast start after the war. One tip came last week, when CAB permitted three airlines (United, TWA and Eastern) to establish new routes to Washington as soon as the Army would let them have some more planes. But for land operators like Keeshin, the going may be tougher: during its five years of existence CAB has not allowed other common carriers to own any airlines...
...suppose TIME means more to me these dangerous days because so often I know who gathered what item of first-hand news from where. So perhaps this travel log of how TIME'S Foreign News and World Battlefronts editors are getting out to the places where the news is born will give you in turn an added interest in TIME'S news this summer and fall...
Action in the North Atlantic (Warner Bros.) is a celluloid glorification of the U.S. merchant marine. To accomplish its business, it signs on First Mate Humphrey Bogart under Skipper Raymond Massey and puts these tough, tenderhearted salts safely through a disaster-laden, pulp-fictional log of two wartime Atlantic crossings. In an interval ashore, Bogart punctuates the voyages with one of his own patented semicolons by finding just enough time to saunter into a waterfront dive, sock a loose-talking barfly and marry the blonde, black-gowned entertainer of the place almost before she can finish throating Night...