Word: recon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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central German Government, they recon sidered the question of the press. The British kept their controls on. But the U.S. authorities dropped licensing and gave the Germans a virtually free press. Ugly Note. By this week, the number of newspapers in the U.S. zone had jumped from 57 to 198; in Bavaria alone, 77 new papers had rushed into print. The ugly note in the new dawn of press freedom was that many of the newcomers were former Nazi and super-nationalist editors and publishers, originally barred because of unsavory political records. Max Willmay, who used to publish Julius Streicher...
Britain's most aggressive movie producer was last week conducting a recon naissance of the North American continent. Hollywood regarded him with just a little uncertainty. And well it might...
...Corpsman and specialize in photo work. As a captain in 1942 he went to Australia, commanded the first P-38 squadron to be used in his kind of work. The P-38s then had more bugs in them than a doughboy's blanket. The high, hot flying of recon work burned them up! Some of Pop's Lightnings exploded in midair...
...Million a Week. The work is no picnic. The improved P-38s which Pop's boys fly are unarmed; guns and ammunition slow them up too much. Photo recon pilots have to depend on speed and cunning to escape...
...World War I, U.S. indus try had on its hands $3,600,000,000 in un delivered war contracts. When World War II ends, U.S. industry may be buried under $75,000,000,000 worth. How this Atlantean burden may hamstring recon version to peacetime production, by tying up capital, is a nightmare to many a U.S. businessman...