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Reporting these accomplishments to the House of Commons last week, Minister Hudson might have sounded gratified. Instead, he sounded urgent. Wheat acreage must be expanded by another 600,000 acres, said he. There must be a 10% increase in the potato crop, more milk. There must be farming by moonlight to get the job done. To save ships, Britain's green earth would have to provide more food for the factory canteens, more food for Allied mess plates...
Against the Japanese invasion force went nine Army Flying Fortresses. Bombing from the flat, the Boeings got hits on a transport and a cruiser, left them burning. Night fell. By moonlight, four Consolidated Catalinas lumbered into the fleet, let drive with torpedoes, hit two big ships. The Japs still plowed...
...strip the chairman of much of his authority. His major opponents are CBS and NBC, which consider Fly prejudiced and think he wants to reform them out of business; the National Association of Broadcasters, which Fly has delighted to compare to John Randolph's dead mackerel in the moonlight ("It shines and stinks"), and newspaper owners, whom Fly is frankly trying to keep out of the radio business for fear of a news monopoly...
...makes Moonlight shine is young, handsome Jerry Lawrence, former actor and amateur wrestler at San Diego State College. He rounds up live talent for the program, and in recent months has introduced Peter Arno, Sheila Barrett, Tommy Dorsey and Guy Lombardo on his "Celebrities Corner" feature...
...Moonlight's biggest sponsors is Furrier I. J. Fox. Survivors from a tanker torpedoed off New Jersey last winter told Lawrence about how they had spent a long, cold night in a small boat hearing him praise the luxury of furs...