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...Million Tons. Meanwhile the A.A.F. had fought a successful war. It had lost 72,000 men and 14,600 aircraft in actual combat; lost 5,300 men and 9,900 aircraft from other causes overseas, where makeshift airfields, fatigue, emergency missions, and overworked planes* are bound to make operational losses high. On the other hand-the A.A.F...
...moorland town of Macclesfield, Housewife Hannah Wright was out of control. Many an officially contrived British wartime makeshift had annoyed her. But wartime corsets made her writhing mad. Last week she sent a letter to Daily Express Columnist William Barkley. Wrote angry Mrs. Wright...
...dropped 50,000 tons of bombs on laboratories in Germany, on launching ramps in France. But the Germans surmounted this drenching attack by devising easily moved, easily hidden ramps. Churchill indirectly confirmed what Londoners suspected: even with advance knowledge Britain had been unable to rig more than a makeshift defense...
...From Makeshift to McGusty. The Suva Medical School began back in the 1880s with verbal instruction (no textbooks, no laboratories) by the British Medical Officer at Fiji. For the first 40 years it was only a makeshift. In 1928, bulky, energetic Dr. Sylvester Maxwell Lambert, who spent 20 years in the South Pacific for the Rockefeller Foundation, persuaded the Foundation to help. In 1929, the Suva School dedicated a new dormitory and mess hall. Enrollment was increased from 16 to 40, extended to include non-Fijians. In the 1930s, pathological and bacteriological laboratories were added. In 1940 a European nurse...
Guard of Honor. London disclosed that some time ago in Italy the R.A.F. high command, on an inspection tour, paused at the end of a makeshift airstrip to watch pilots of the all-Negro U.S. 99th Fighter Squadron take off on a special mission with two 500-lb. bombs loaded under each of their P-40 Warhawks. Just as one plane was off the ground its engine conked...