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Senator in Action. As a Senator, Arthur Vandenberg has been a Republican independent. One of his heroes in the upper house was the late, great maverick, Bill Borah; when Borah died, Vandenberg moved into his office. He strung along with the New Deal on Social Security, SEC and price control; opposed it on TVA, the Supreme Court packing bill, and consumer subsidies. Some newsmen in the capital began to call him the "Yes and No Man." He is proud of a letter from Democrat Leo Crowley, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., acknowledging Vandenberg as the father of that...
...have learned so much in flying around the globe for the Army's Air Transport Command and Naval Air Transport Service that they are now confident that they can meet Pan Am at its own globe-girdling game. On the thousands of route miles which the U.S. has strung around the world, some eight domestic lines, Pan Am, Pan American-Grace and American Export Airlines have flown the astronomical distance of 2,581,903,999 passenger miles on overseas routes since Pearl Harbor...
Lesson Learned. He had telegraphed his punch for weeks, for three days had stoked a 66-mile smoke screen in hundreds of chemical generators strung along the river. The Germans had advertised their anticipation of airborne drops. But when they were made, German reaction was surprisingly light. One reason: the enemy had expected the drops farther east. Cautious Monty profited by the Arnhem lesson. This time the First Allied Airborne Army chuted to within artillery range of the ground forces...
...target. Near Brussels the forces joined-the British 6th Airborne Division flying from England, the U.S. 17th Airborne from France. There were more than 3,000 transports, towing gliders and carrying men and equipment. They had 2,000 fighter planes and bombers running interference. If the planes had been strung out in single file they could have stretched in unbroken line from Paris to Berlin. The Allies' big parade was over its German objective for three hours...
Some soldiers crossed on foot bridges. The night before, engineer patrols had sneaked steel cables across the river, and these had remained slack, submerged and undetected during the day. Now they were pulled taut, out of the water, and swaying foot bridges were strung across in a matter of minutes...