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Also under the President's eye and hand were enormous domestic problems which will inevitably affect the war effort: 1) labor strikes, on which he was readying a statement this week; 2) defense growing pains, which were changing the map of the U.S., creating great cities yet making ghost towns, too; 3) inflation, which still zoomed...
...Little Sir Echo as he set about explaining to the foreign press how and why Hitler thought they had won. Hitler's Little Sir Echo is his Press Chief, Dr. Otto Dietrich. As he stood in the palatial auditorium of the Propaganda Ministry, in front of a Russian map three times his own height, the suave, bright-faced unraveler of the Führer's tongue was more suave and bright-faced than ever...
...last intact Russian Armies, those of Marshal Semion Timoshenko, were trapped in two encirclements at Bryansk and Vyazma (see map), and faced inescapable annihilation...
...Center's whereabouts is a military secret-except that it is on the seventh floor of a brick, steel and concrete building, a spot immune to any bomb. Supervised by Army officers, its girl volunteers take flashes from the outposts, maneuver discs and blocks about huge table maps, like croupiers at a roulette game. First map is in the Filter Center, where each aircraft is checked and charted-by white discs when its allegiance is unknown, by colored blocks when it is discovered to be hostile. Flight directions are plotted by arrows...
When the Filter Center has filtered out false alarms and corrected errors, the information is relayed to the Main Operations Board, where each plane is charted on a 30-ft. table map, from the moment of its discovery until the "All Clear" sounds. Brooding over the Main Operations Board, from a perch in a glass-enclosed balcony, is the controller, key man of the setup, who determines the best way to head off the enemy. With him are officers in charge of antiaircraft, balloon barrages, searchlights and air-raid warnings. The controller, whatever his military rank, is supreme...