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With the executive genius for which RKO wanted to pay him $30,000 a year if he would leave the Service, General MacArthur grouped the nine corps areas into four army areas: (1) North Atlantic States, (2) Upper Mississippi Basin, (3) Southern & Southwestern States, (4) Western. & Northwestern States. In emergency, these four Field Armies would probably be placed in command of the Army's ranking generals. Each corps commander would still function within his own "zone of the interior," attending to matters of mobilization, supply, training and transport on his own familiar ground, while his Army commander took over...
...Naval Observatory's 26-incher, Canada's Dominion Astronomical Observatory's 72-incher, Argentine National Observatory's 60-incher, the mounting and housing for the 80-incher which will be the world's second largest when it is installed in McDonald Observatory in southwestern Texas...
Educational as well as spectacular was the costume of large, active Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes who appeared as a Zuni Indian matron. Long a student of Southwestern Indians and author of a book about them called Mesa Land, the Republican wife of the Secretary of the Interior knew exactly what to wear...
Osaka, Japan, Saturday, Sept, 22--The wall of wind which swept in from the sea, causing a tidal wave and toppling tall buildings in southwestern Japan like matchwood, left more than 4,100 persons dead and injured, officials estimated...
...Kansas, farmers last week were selling 200,000 head of cattle to the Government before they died on the hoof from thirst. In some places farmers drove their livestock into woodlots and cut down trees to give them leaves to munch. Travelers through southwestern Kansas reported what they mistook for a new oil boom. Everywhere drilling crews were working night and day driving wells for water...