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...Aircraft Corp. Like all oldtimers in Consolidated's tightly knit hierarchy, he has long since ceased to be surprised at any feat a Cat performs. But he has not lost his capacity for pride. It has plenty to feed on in the Cat's nest in a sunlit stretch between crowded Pacific Highway and San Diego (Calif...
Into the wide, sunlit harbor of Sydney, New South Wales, one morning last week steamed a squadron of seven U. S. warships. While flags dipped, bombers droned overhead, ships' guns and shore batteries boomed a 21-gun salute, the biggest detachment of the U. S. Fleet to visit Australia in 16 years tied up at the big docks in Woolloomooloo Bay. Ashore piled 2,000 officers and men, leaving aboard the luckless few who had the duty...
Classical civilization, says Peattie, was sunlit, but Western civilization was born in shadowy forests. "Never in a history is there adequate description of the dark forests in which the story of early medieval Europe was enacted," he claims, forgetting that both John Ruskin and Oswald Spengler made the point long ago. The Renaissance was the product of nasty weather. Rain, cold, floods, plagues, famines, sunspots flourished in the 14th Century. Result: Giotto, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, the Medicis. Confessed Leonardo da Vinci: "All the genius that I have comes from the air [climate] of my native province." When the weather cleared...
...danger from the Atlantic if Nazi Germany seizes or destroys Britain's Navy. The only route for an attacker crossing the Atlantic to strike at the Canal is through an area long regarded by most U. S. citizens as a source of rich commerce and a place for sunlit vacations: the Caribbean...
...sunlit clearing on Belle Isle, between nonbelligerent Detroit and warring Canada, since last autumn there has been building a 90-ft. tower for a carillon dedicated to peace. It was conceived by a little old lady, Nancy Brown, aged 69, and paid for by the nickels and dimes contributed by those who read her famed lovelorn column in the Detroit News (TIME...