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...When and if enemy bombers visit the U.S., their pilots will need to know a very few, simple facts about their objectives. By actual experiment, a group of Army officers in Washington demonstrated that from pre-war stories, pictures, advertisements in the U.S. press, they could compile a frighteningly complete dossier on nearly every vital military objective...
...Since Pearl Harbor the U.S. has received 114,000 tons of Far Eastern rubber, and another 114,000 tons is now afloat U.S.-bound. January imports were 76,000 tons, 80% more than the pre-war monthly average...
...controversy over Marshal Timoshenko's ancestry (TIME, Jan. 5), there is one factor deserving of attention. Timoshenko's birthplace, Stalino, was not just "a small town called Youzovka" but a very English town, the first and one of the most important English industrial centers in pre-war Ukraine. The name Youzovka is itself English-a Russian spelling of Hughes-ovka-after its founder, a Welsh ironmaster named Hughes...
...When war began, intercoastal operators sold some ships abroad (at double the pre-war tonnage value), chartered others to U.S. overseas operators. Thus reduced and with traffic booming, the intercoastal lines made a killing in 1940. But last year the Maritime Commission, desperate for tonnage, requisitioned more than half the remaining intercoastal tonnage, put several lines (including big Panama-Pacific) out of business. Last week the Commission notified the lines that all ships still in the intercoastal service would be needed immediately for more essential jobs...
MAIGRET SITS IT OUT-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace ($2). The phlegmatic French detective moves through two stories of murder among pre-war Paris' underworld and petite bourgeoisie. Excellent as quivering slices of lowlife, and as studies in psychology. The detecting is typical Maigret...