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Second Revolution. Like all wartime governors, Saltonstall has benefited from bulging coffers and full employment. But even before Pearl Harbor he had begun a project which may be his major contribution in office: a planning board for a postwar revolution of Massachusetts' entire manufacturing economy. As an early bird...
The Blow. At Palau it looked as if the Jap Navy would choose to retire from another segment of the Pacific rather than give battle. Japanese scout planes had sighted the U.S. battle force as it approached, and long before the U.S. fleet hove in sight, Japanese vessels fled from...
A month ago China's Bishop Chen Wenyuan, steaming across the Pacific on a U.S. hospital transport, was thrilled when the ship sighted two Japanese submarines. This week in Manhattan U.S. Protestant leaders welcomed the 45-year-old Methodist Bishop ("China's No. 1 Protestant") as the unofficial...
The four survivors managed to get two life rafts inflated, then collapsed, unable to move or help each other. On the second day searching bombers sighted them; that evening an Australian Catalina patrol flying boat rescued them.
Ghosting over the South Atlantic, patrol planes sighted a strange merchant vessel. That night the U.S. destroyer Somers caught up with her, recognized an enemy, opened fire with 5-in. guns. The merchantman's crew began abandoning ship at the first salvo. When the destroyer closed, demolition charges sent...