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...show signs of weakening. Flak remains heavy, but not uniformly so; fighter opposition on most recent assaults has been light. But in the drive to knock out Japan's industry, the B-29s will now face a new enemy: weather. Between June and September, eastern Japan's rainiest season, the air will be warm, moist and thick with clouds. Inevitably, more bombing will have to be done by instruments and will be correspondingly less accurate, but there will be no lightening of the bomb loads...
Another baptism took place at one of the rainiest inaugurations in history (see col. 3). Afterward the new President told his press conference that the possibility of building a national auditorium to shelter future inaugurations should be looked into. But when the chairman of the inaugural committee, Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson, next called at the White House, there was another matter to consider: the catastrophic baptism of the Ohio Valley and part of the Mississippi by an unparalleled flood (see p. 12). Admiral Grayson, as chairman of the Red Cross, Admiral Leahy, as chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral...
...This has been a grey rainy day, and I happened to choose the rainiest part of it to go for a ride. My dogs and I looked like drowned rats on our return...