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...Secretary, Head Forest Ranger Bill Augustine had had his men tidy a weatherbeaten five-room log cabin on Mt. Storm King in Olympic National Park, the "last big woods" in the U.S., at the extreme upper-lefthand corner of the map. Harold Ickes pulled on a pair of the most unpressed trousers the natives had ever seen, an old grey sweater, a pair of scuffed brown oxfords, and opened his shirt-collar. His young red-haired wife, Jane (Dahlman), changed to tight-fitting blue cowboy dungarees, jodhpur boots, a tan wool jacket. Safe at home, 3,000 miles away...
Unlike its competitors MBS started through necessity. Back in 1934 Gordon Baking Co., which was sponsoring the Lone Ranger out of Detroit, wanted to hit the New York and Chicago markets, with no stops at aerial way stations. Neither NBC nor CBS could render the spot coverage. But WOR, then of Newark, and WGN of Chicago agreed to provide a dual hookup. The Gordon method of radio advertising appealed to many another sponsor...
...secrets edited out) was promised the public this week. He was reported to have said: 1) no U.S. ship except the Robin Moor has been sunk in the Atlantic so far; 2) reports that 80 U.S. ships had been convoyed to Britain were wrong; 3) the U.S. aircraft carrier Ranger had not been damaged by a German bomb; 4) the Navy had no definite orders to shoot German warships on sight...
...unit (Patrol Wing I) of big flying boats. Along with their flying watchmen, these planes can also carry bombs or torpedoes for attacking enemy ships. Assigned to Bermuda was a close-in combat flier (Lieut. Commander Robert F. Hickey), who now heads a group on the aircraft carrier Ranger (fighters, torpedo planes, scout bombers...
...provide additional aluminum, lead and steel for national defense," Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt last week sold his four-year-old, $300,000 Ranger, last defender of the America's Cup, to a Fall River (Mass.) ship-junking firm. Price...