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...Army had its own pigeon-sized air-cargo system. In 1941 it carted 4,000 tons of airplane parts to & from tactical fields and its depots. But in the U.S. long-range air freighting was an uncharted stratum, even after the Army established a ferry service to deliver combat planes abroad. As late as last autumn only a minuscule 4% of the Army's planes consisted of troop and cargo carriers. The Navy was tardier...
...Ever scientific, the German radio has made use of the well-known skip in short waves (they travel in a series of bounces, hundreds of miles long, between the earth and an ionized upper stratum of atmosphere) to make Midwesterners wonder whether they harbored a disloyal station. "Station D-E-B-U-N-K," when picked up around Chicago on the earthward bounce, was heard referring to European stations as "over there" and urging folks to "fight the dictatorship . . . in Washington." FCC triangulations located it in western Europe...
Even the mediums of "polite education" which Harvard has so long been sheltering from the assaults of the world have felt the impact of war. Like their more material counterparts, the departments of concentration in the extreme stratum of the liberal arts have been forced to reform their position in higher education...
Without a steady flow of investments, it is true, Harvard will not be able to expand further. With a few extra million dollars and the prospects of more in the offing, the Administration could draw up a scholarship program that would reach an entirely untouched stratum of the population. Such worthy experiments as the Nieman Fellowships and the Littauer Center would profit by enlargement. But, possibly with a longing sigh for the glories that it might achieve, the Administration must forget expansion and stick to balancing the budget. With only tuition and income to go on, it will have plenty...
...being put into practice, yet that is exactly the situation which the ordinary soldier or sailor in the United States armed forces faces today. Called on to defend the thesis that "all men are created equal," he is at all times acutely conscious of his membership in the lower stratum of a pernicious caste system that separates officer from enlisted man by an almost impassable gulf...