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Over the border at Loiwing, China, an aircraft factory sprang up. run mostly by Americans. Dr. Seagrave agreed to run the hospital attached to it and it was there, in October 1940, that he did his first war surgery. Hundreds of Chinese were wounded, and seriously-they had not had enough experience with Japanese bombing to lie down...
...many. Those 2,000 ships had set out from different ports, at different speeds, on different courses; each had its appointed station for H-hour. As if the natural difficulties of such an operation were not enough, on the night of invasion a 40-knot westerly gale sprang...
...Allied Air Force, in its new A36 fighter-bombers, sprang a particularly nasty surprise on the enemy during the pre-invasion cleanup. An adaptation of the North American Mustang (P-51) the A36 is a 400-mile-an-hour single seater, equipped with dive brakes and wing bomb racks. It functions as a dive or glide bomber or as a low level strafing ship, specializing in such small but worthwhile targets as truck convoys, trains and power stations...
...Pretoria after demanding a $1-a-week raise above their weekly scale. Troops fired on the rioters, killed 16, wounded 66 (TIME, Jan. 11). For South Africa to contemplate last week was the report of a commission headed by liberal-minded Justice John Murray. It found: 1) the riot sprang spontaneously from wage grievances and disgraceful housing conditions; 2) ten of those killed were shot in the back while running to escape armored cars. In a land where 2,000,000 whites dominate 7,000,000 restive Negroes the report was dynamite. It was also an earnest of a nation...
...recent convert to baseball, Four-Striper McClure is now a rabid fan. When Seaman Rizzuto made a home run in a recent game with the Washington Senators, the Certain sprang off the players' bench, rushed out to shake his hand as he crossed the plate. During another game, when fly-chasing Di Maggio backed into a deep gully on the edge of the field, Captain McClure jumped into his private jeep, scooted across the field to see if he was hurt. The Captain is constantly tacking notices on the clubhouse bulletin board. The morning of a game with...