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...Utuado, Puerto Rico, Sefiora Carmen Lopez bore triplets: on Monday a girl, on Tuesday another girl, on Wednesday...
...authorized a $1,600,000 fund for radio's defense efforts, aerial gumshoeing put on seven-megacycle gum boots, established a special National Defense Operations Section to supplement FCC's routine monitoring work. Now under construction are four new primary monitoring stations in Texas, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico. Ready to swing into action is a network of 72 secondary stations. Required personnel for the monitoring job: 520 men for the duration. Last week the new Defense Communications Board announced it was well along with a program insuring complete Governmental control over "radio, wire and cable communication facilities...
...regular Army barracks had to be wastefully rushed (cost: $273,000,000); the 16 used for drafted men cost twice what they should have. There were bottlenecks in labor and lumber, a shortage of competent foremen, towering bills for overtime. Toward the end, workers were imported from Puerto Rico and the West Indies. Result of all the rush was a set of unsightly buildings that for the most part came down, for salvage, after war was over...
Vinceute A. Rodrigues '41, Guanica, Puerto Rico.; Walter F. Rogers Jr. '43 Jacksonville, Fla.; Edward I. Rothschild '42, Winnetka, Ill.; Hermann G. Rudenberg '41, Belmonet Mass.; Allan M. Sachs '42, New York, N.Y.; Robert C.C. St. George Jr. '43, Brooklyn...
...Martinique are some no U. S.-made warplanes, aboard the French aircraft carrier Beam. Besides the eight destroyers of the U. S. patrol flotilla, several cruisers of the recently reorganized Atlantic Squadron are on a training cruise to the Guantanamo Naval Station in Cuba. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, are 12,000 officers and men of the Navy Air Corps. If the problem of Martinique had to be settled, the U. S. was well prepared...