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Simultaneously German bombers roared in over the docks, dropped flares, circled to identify the warships' positions. Over the roadstead leading out to sea parachute mines floated down to block the entrance. Aboard the French vessels, officers and crews sprang to their stations. Searchlights stabbed out, anti-aircraft batteries opened up from the ships and ashore. From the flagship of Vice Admiral Jean de Laborde, commander of the fleet, a signal was given...
Under Bergh's direction branches of the S.P.C.A. sprang up all over the U.S. Adored and boosted by half the press and people, reviled and hated by the other half, Bergh never relaxed his crusade. His fanatical love of animals grew so intense that he advocated terrible tortures (a whipping machine was one) for human beings who mistreated animals. But because he realized that children were as much in need of protection as animals, Bergh paused long enough in his work for the S.P.C.A. to help found another great humanitarian institution, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty...
When Henry J. Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. sprang a production miracle and splashed a 10,500-ton Liberty ship into the water ten days after keel laying (TIME, Oct. 5), the tough, hard-hitting gangs in Kaiser's Richmond (Calif.) Shipbuilding Corp. yard No. 2 sputtered "What the hell has Oregon got that we haven...
This week General MacArthur sprang his surprise. U.S. troops, he announced, were fighting in the vicinity of Buna. Evidently the dirty, sweating U.S. Army engineers had hacked a crude road through the world's wettest, highest jungle, enabling combat troops to cross the mountains on the Australians' flank and knock at the Japs' back door. More troops came in planes which landed on a natural strip discovered in the jungle. Said General MacArthur: "The Allied forces now control all of Papua except the beachhead in the Buna-Gona area...
...When the shipyards sprang up, everybody expected Harry Bridges' C.I.O. longshoremen's union to move in. But the A.F. of L.'s boilermakers got there first. Boilermakers are no longer boilermakers; the union includes welders, shipfitters, hook tenders, caulkers, riggers, shrinkers, flangers, "holder-ons." Some 70% of all shipyard workers in the West wear the union's button. But because payrolls change daily (men leave for the armed services, for better jobs), no one, not even union leaders, knows exactly how many members IBBMISBWHA has. Estimates are around 165,000 (Portland's local, largest, claims...