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...Loudest Noise I Ever Heard." At 5 a.m. a large Japanese plane dove low and before any alarm could be sounded, let go a salvo of 100-kilogram bombs, one of which got the street corner 50 ft. from our house. The noise was the loudest I have ever heard. I landed in a sitting position half out of bed, and hopelessly tangled in mosquito netting...
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...Government last week dedicated "The loudest voice in the world"-the $1,500,000 short-wave transmitters, near Cincinnati, built by the Crosley Corp. for the Government to make the "Voice of America" heard anywhere in Europe, Africa, South America. Designed to compete with Axis propaganda, the three transmitters (up to 200 kilowatts) are probably the most powerful ever built. Private industry despairs of running them at a profit after the war, but the Government may have enough to say to the rest of the world to keep them from rusting...
...Michigan State decided it was time to resume operations after a year's absence from the gridiron. Others, like Princeton and Carnegie Tech, figuring contrariwise, had tossed in the towel for the duration. Of the few teams already in action, Michigan's teens rang the freshman bell loudest last week by winning their opener, 12 -to-7, against the strong Iowa Seahawks (Naval Pre-Flight); 6-ft. 4 Freshman End Dick Rifenburg caught passes and ran for both Michigan touchdowns...
...Deal newspapers howled the loudest against Bob Murphy's appointment. They recalled: 1) his friendship with the men of Vichy when he was the top U.S. representative to the French (1942); and 2) his choice of General Giraud as a candidate to head a new French Government. A Milwaukee-born Irish Catholic who has spent most of his life in Europe, Bob Murphy never bothered to deny charges that he looked on Europe's conservatives with a vast tolerance...