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...later the Western Defense Command announced that the trailing plane that clipped the tail assembly was an army bomber. About all other details it was mum. Airline officials and pilots had cause to say: "I told you so." Long & loud have been their complaints about Ferry Command pilots who hop on & off the airlines' beam without reporting positions to traffic controls. One pilot reported last week he had to pull up the nose so fast to avoid hitting an army plane that he almost threw his passengers through the floor. The Army and CAA immediately launched an investigation: this...
Franklin Roosevelt had come back from an inspiring look at the country (see p. 15) in a critical mood. He vented his distaste for Congress (which in spite of its inclinations was just giving him inflation control), for the press (which against all its news instincts had kept totally mum about his trip) and for members of his own Administration (who had been trying to do the very best they knew how). To the three victims this was ingratitude. They felt hurt and thoroughly...
...learn the "truth" about Alaska. They were going too fast to see much, if anything, but reporters said they apparently were having a good time en route. Back from Alaska came two fighting Congressmen and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. One was a mum-mouthed Texan, Lyndon Johnson, recently returned from the South Pacific, where he was one of the President's observers with General MacArthur. The other, Warren Magnuson of Washington, talked a little. His conclusions: "The war situation in Alaska is serious but not alarming. . . . The military plan is to pulverize...
Many survivors, said the tight-lipped Admiralty, were picked up. Others from the Manchester were believed to have reached the Tunisian coast. On total losses the British were mum, although they claimed destruction of two Axis U-boats. At week's end they issued a stoical report...
...Coast Guard kept mum about the spy's origin. But it did concede that Neddie and Grant broke up a radio station which for months had sent messages to sea-roving Nazi submarines. In Rye, proud citizens are out to get Government heroes' medals for the boys...