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Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, warm-worded war correspondent, learned that he had been given partial credit for improving U.S. mechanized equipment. From Africa, to the jeep's makers (Willys-Overland), Pyle had written: "The jeep is a divine instrument of wartime locomotion [but the present hand brake] is perfectly useless." Last week Willys-Overland wrote to tell him that they had substituted a good, new internal-expansion brake for the bad, old external-contraction type...
Wendell Willkie began in earnest the long, uphill fight to win the GOPresidential nomination. His special car, so ancient a Pullman that the Union Pacific refused to hitch it to the super-streamlined City of San Francisco, rumbled west from Chicago behind the Overland Limited...
Since TIME began our West Coast subscribers have been getting the first copies off the press each week -rushed overland to them by the fastest trains. But since 1935 our circulation in booming California has been growing 50% faster than the average. Percentagewise we now have more readers there than has any other front-rank magazine. In fact, one out of every thirteen California families reads TIME each week-and it takes more than 130,000 copies for this one state alone...
...Cape Gris-Nez. Two hundred shells were fired. One large enemy merchant vessel was sunk, another was hard hit. From this German willingness to risk ships in the Channel shooting gallery, Allied commanders judged that the steady air pounding of French railroads and communications must be snarling normal overland supply lines behind the Invasion Coast...
Arawe lies 290 wild, rugged miles from Rabaul and its broad harbor. At Arawe, the. General is not in position for a practicable overland march. But he is in a key spot to hasten the process of isolating Rabaul, a process begun by strong seaand-air attacks in the past two months...