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...crackling along the Gulf Coast, the hams of STEN (South Texas Emergency Network) were given a red alert, went on the air to monitor the messages along to their destinations. In Washington, FCC hastily authorized STEN to use emergency frequency bands. Amateurs all over the U.S., Bermuda and Puerto Rico stood by to pick up and relay the messages...
...Rockets Hail. Six thousand miles away from Oahu, amphibious tactics were being dusted off for the benefit of boot sailors and marines. Against the uninhabited part of Culebra Island, near Puerto Rico, the Missouri fired one-ton shells from its 16-inch rifles, and landing craft loosed a hail of rockets. Marine Corps planes strafed the beach when 5,000 leathernecks "storming" it called...
...houses perch perkily on the hills around Los Angeles where he lives, and they alter more distant landscapes too. He is versatile enough to have designed both a moated desert mansion for Movie Director Josef von Sternberg and an elaborate system of low-cost schools and hospitals for Puerto Rico. Neutra's buildings are pondered and imitated (especially in technical details of construction) by architects around the world. Says noted French Architect Marcel Lods in L'Architecture : "[He] is already a classic and . . . will be more so tomorrow. Neutra offers us an infinitely precious message...
...operations officer for the Naval Air Transport Service for the Caribbean and South America. When he got out of the Navy in 1946, he joined Waterman Airlines. With six planes - two DC-4s and four DC-3s - he has operated a nonscheduled service to Puerto Rico, Central America, England, Germany and South Africa, an intrastate line between six Alabama cities...
...tentative date: mid-1948), Hilton will take over. All he has to put up is enough cash to buy linen, dishes, pay and train the staff, cover operating expenses. In return, he will get one-third of the profits. Hilton will stand any losses, but nobody expects any. Puerto Rico is already short of hotel rooms, hopes soon to be doing a booming tourist business...