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Bombardiers' Weather. Early in the week huge formations of American heavy bombers-700 in all-trundled up from dozens of English airbases into the morning sunlight. Their main objectives: three of Germany's key aircraft assembly plants, at Oschersleben, Brunswick, Halberstadt, 400 miles from Britain's shores...
...tire was announced by Good year last week. According to Goodyear, it had some advantages over tires of syn thetic or natural rubber. Unlike synthetic rubber (itself a soft plastic), the new tread does not readily become overheated on the road. Unlike natural rubber, it does not deteriorate in sunlight...
...once more the religious capital of some 100,000,000 Orthodox Christians (there are comparatively few dissenters in Russia), had bridged the crevasses that for 25 years Bolsheviks have tried to open between Russian believers and nonbelievers. Once more the peasant trudging in from the land and catching the sunlight flash on the gilt onion "domes of Moscow's remaining churches could utter the traditional invocation with the traditional tenderness...
Henceforth most U.S. warplanes will go into action bright and shining except for the dull black patches brushed on surfaces which reflect sunlight into airmen's eyes. Only "where tactical considerations require it in combat zones" will camouflage be used any more...
Sirs: In ... TIME, Nov. 1, relating Cordell Hull's arrival in Moscow appears the phrase "in the sunlight of a rare October after noon." When were October afternoons "rare?" The Russians have been able to do everything short of the supernatural ; not yet, however, have they - or anybody else - been able to reduce the number of afternoons in a month...