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...rural air mail was just talk until handsome young Du Pont got the bright idea that overcame the two big obstacles to small-town air mail: expense of landing fields, loss of time and money making stops. Du Font's idea: land only when necessary, otherwise swoop low over clearings at 100 m.p.h., simultaneously drop incoming mail, pick up outgoing letters and packages by snagging a pouch hung on a 50-foot cable between two 40-foot poles...
...most novel idea came from the Air Corps's Major General George Brett, who announced that Army planes would swoop in mass formation over struck plants, to show strikers "what they are working for." Congressman Dies, who has cried "Wolf!" so long & loud that he has almost turned public sympathy against Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, croaked incessantly of Communists, demanded the purging from labor of all Reds. In Washington, an Army officer wagered even money that the first target of U. S. armed forces would not be enemy troops but U. S. citizens...
...been seriously disrupted. Shanghai reports said that Burma Road bridges across the winding Mekong River had been bombed to pieces, were piled up as wreckage downstream. Months ago Chinese anti-aircraft guns were foolishly placed high on the rim of the Mekong gorges. Japanese bomber pilots soon learned to swoop below the gun level, bombed the deep-gorge bridges with relative impunity. Later the guns were lowered. Last week it was said that along the Road supply trucks were jammed up by the hundreds-fine bombing targets -waiting for flimsy wooden ferries often unable to float a single truckload...
...would have to meet the complaints of over-strictness and over-complication. To harmonize with the general tendency at Harvard to treat undergraduates as mature persons, it would have to throw more responsibility on the individual student. This cannot be done by abolishing the parietal regulations in one fell swoop; the "honor system" can easily be carried too far, as Esquire's aggrieved females tell us each month. A suitable compromise might well be the Oxford card system, which was proposed in 1936 at the time when the "two-woman" rule was dropped. Under this scheme, a House member would...
...Britain's airmen & equipment is higher and their numbers (according to Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaverbrook last week) greater than ever before. But they are still woefully few compared to the Luftwaffe, which last week, by its comparative inaction, appeared to be gathering itself for its greatest lethal swoop of all. R. A. F. sought to hamper those preparations by seeking out German planes upon the ground-a technique at which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight 'em." At Rouen, Merville...