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...months ago, 144 put in at a Florida base for repairs. Another C-54 rolled up beside her, needing a new landing-gear nosewheel. Repairmen looted 144. Their idea was that a new parts shipment could re-equip 144 later...
Things should be calmer in 1944. But Marvin still gets emergency calls-a sugar grower needs a shipment of live frogs from Argentina to eat insects menacing the sugar crop; a silk concern wants a shipment of silkworm eggs from Turkey. He turned down a request to ship perfume essence, worth $1,500 a Ib. But when the U.S. onion crop turned out poorly, 61,600 pounds of onion seeds were flown in from Argentina...
Gradually breaking up after a two-month stay in the ASTU, the 56-man ROTC group returned to Harvard after basic training loses 17 more men today as a shipment goes to OCS at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. These Field Artillery students follow by one week the 24 men who were sent to the Armored Fort school at Ft. Knox, Kentucky...
A.S.C. takes every Air Forces plane as it leaves the factory, from then on keeps it in fuel, ammunition and repair. A.S.C. depots make any needed plane modifications which would otherwise slow up a factory production line, fit out every plane for flight or shipment overseas. A.S.C. also acts as an express company for all air freight in the U.S. flown by the Air Transport Command. It even publishes an illustrated catalogue of surplus or obsolete items (TIME...
...exporters launched a gusty blast at Government controls which banned the shipment of U.S. fats & oils to Mediterranean importers. They were angry because fats & oil needs in the Middle East are being supplied by British exporters exclusively. Joint Anglo-American economic strategy and shipping shortages dictated this allocation, but the exporters still feared a sellout to shrewd British traders...