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...sharp action at Semarang in central Java. U.S.-made Sherman tanks helped British Indian troops finally clear most of Surabaya. Noisy, effective Indonesian radio stations cried to the youth of the Indies to rise and join their jungle columns. At week's end the British sped Mosquito-borne rockets into two radio stations...
...British discoverers to be a better malaria attack preventive than atabrine. Quinine and atabrine merely prevent parasites already in the blood from making the victim sick. Paludrine may occasionally even prevent malaria from getting into the blood at all, by killing the germ at the moment the mosquito pushes it through the skin...
This was one of the few bright spots in the dismal story of U.S. surpluses abroad. Out of the $555 million in surplus Army & Navy goods, ranging from mosquito netting to steamrollers and locomotives, FLC had sold only a microscopic $18 million in cash. UNRRA had been the best customer, because UNRRA could draw against the $150 million contribution which the U.S. has made in surplus to UNRRA. But in a desperately needy world there were few other buyers. Why? Yankee Trader. Chief trouble had been FLC's notion that it should sell surpluses to foreign governments only...
...glimpse of the dagger. In daily press releases OSS (sounding a little like one unaccustomed to public speaking) told some of its exploits. OSS men had wormed their way into Gestapo schools. Others had infiltrated Siam to turn Bangkok into an Allied listening post. They had manned a mosquito fleet running munitions and information to the Greek resistance movement, worked 18 months as advance men in Africa for the invasion...
Bombers to Beds. The famed Mosquito bomber plant had begun producing utility furniture for newlyweds. Austin and Morris, Britain's top two car makers, were pouring out a stream of shiny new automobiles. The Sunbeam Co. had started on three great fleets of busses for South Africa. Tractors and cars were to go to Turkey and the Middle East. Several aircraft plants had swiftly switched to making prefabricated houses and car parts. A sprawling airplane equipment factory in Speke was turning out children's pumps and women's corsets...