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Since then skip-bombing has become a standard for the Fifth Air Force of Lieut. General George Kenney. And every time it brings in returns, Kenney's airmen thank a cheerful, extroverted major named William G. Benn, of Washington, Pa...
...trio of Midgley, Wilson and Frolich have more in common than just their arcane researches. Midgley reminded the Society that he and Wilson had not only been born in the same town (Beaver Falls, Pa.), but had been delivered by the same local doctor, and had used the same crib, which Midgley's parents passed on to the Wilson family. Wilson graduated from M.I.T. and became a major in the chemical warfare branch of the U.S. Army at 25. Frolich is also a graduate of M.I.T., like Wilson was a member of its potent Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry...
...Mack Truck's big tank-part plant at Allentown, Pa. was fortuitously near an abandoned airport. So when tank production was cut back the Allentown plant made an ideal spot for Navy torpedo bomber production by Vultee Aircraft. Cost of the changeover (including fixing up the airport): $6,000,000 v. the $15,000,000 it would have cost to start fresh...
ROBERTA CLEAVER WEIR Penn Wynne, Pa...
Died. Charles Henry ("Bill") Sykes, 60, editorial cartoonist of Philadelphia's Evening Public Ledger from its birth (1914) to its death (last January), onetime cartoonist for the old Life magazine; of a heart attack; in Cynwyd, Pa. William Jennings Bryan once asked him for an original cartoon Sykes had drawn of him; Sykes sent it, with a note: "Cartoonists all over the country secretly admire you . . . because without you our work would be much more difficult...