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...forced to raise $500,000 extra cash with a stock offering in 1941. But one month before Pearl Harbor President Sam Solomon made two prophetic moves: 1) he petitioned CAA to start a postgraduate pilot-training school; 2) he asked CAB for a route extension from Moncton to Newfoundland. Came Pearl Harbor, and Northeast had a head start on most other U.S. airlines. The Army promptly gave it air cargo routes across the Atlantic to Scotland, tossed in a fat pilot-training program to boot...
...September 1942, the St. Roch, looking little the worse for wear, came down the coast past Labrador to Newfoundland. The crew had gained weight, and no man, except the dead Chartrand, had been ill of so much as a cold...
...from a black Buick sedan and walked into the Munitions Building on Constitution Avenue. In his big, plain office on the second floor, next door to the Secretary of War, he began his day by looking through "the log"?a sheaf of radiograms and cables from Britain, Iceland, Newfoundland, Alaska, the Caribbean, Brazil, British Guiana, Ecuador, West Africa, North Africa, Persia, Hawaii, Australia, the Solomons, India, China?from any point (including several places now unmentionable) where U.S. troops and airmen might have had anything to report overnight. His "log" might also include pertinent communications from the British, Russians...
...Churchill loves fine clothes, silk underwear, cream-colored pajamas, soft linen handerkerchiefs, grey suede gloves, chimneypot hats and lounge suits with a sly pin stripe. Bit of a dandy he is, always dashing about somewhere. A year ago it was a sea trip to Newfoundland's Placentia Bay for the Atlantic Charter signing. Then two flights to Washington. Now it was the 10,000-mile trip to Egypt and Moscow. It was a relief this week to Sawyers, Churchill's pale-lashed, nimble little valet, to be back again in No. 10 Downing Street...
...trip is right in the tradition of TIME'S Army & Navy department -whose editors are themselves no table-top generals. Even before Pearl Harbor one or another of the senior writers in this department had personally visited practically every important Army & Navy post from Honolulu to Newfoundland and Trinidad, 75 posts in all, many of them more than once...