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...propaganda broadcasts to Japan. In fact, the most important of these broadcasts were not aimed primarily at the people. The U.S.'s chief psychological spokesman, Navy Captain Ellis M. Zacharias, had aimed his principal shafts at a few men he knew well in Japan's top strata. Whether they had heeded him and would be useful in defeat was one of the big questions yet to be answered...
Career airmen of the Navy, not so fortunate, are still represented in the upper strata (four-and five-star admirals) only by five-star COMINCH Ernest King, who learned to fly at 48 and has never worked hard at being an airman, and four-starred "Bull" Halsey, who was 52 before he ever had a control stick in his hands. This week, naval aviators who had been busy at flying since they were youngsters watched anxiously for the Navy's list of promotions to four-star rank. But they watched without much hope. To the Navy's crusty...
...this activity fortified an ancient hope of U.S. geologists: that the great Gulf oil strata of Texas and Louisiana sweep eastward clear to the Atlantic and northward along the coastline, perhaps all the way up to Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved. But meanwhile the southeastern boom fosters a nearer-term political purpose for the rugged individualists of the U.S. oil industry. As Oil Czar Ickes backs his unpopular Arabian pipeline (TIME, Feb. 14, et seq.) with dire warnings that the U.S. "cannot oil another war," the industry can use every...
...Mother," the cloud-shrouded tallest of Rabaul's volcanic peaks, and the lesser "Daughters" on either side, brooded somberly. Australian officials recalled the report which was made by vulcanologists more than three years ago after an inspection of Rabaul's treacherous strata: another eruption was likely to occur at any moment...
Texas very definitely does not have "Jim Crow" law as applicable to Mexicans, and what segregation there is in the schools is for the reason of difference of language rather than for any feeling of superiority. There are different social strata among the Mexicans even as among the Texans, which the Texans, with all their recognition of the economic necessity of the various strata, recognize. But as to their lumping all Mexicans together in "extreme intolerable racial discrimination," that is a pure figment of imagination...