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...edit the cables from Ingraham, Hersey and Belden, to piece together the torrent of news pouring in over our AP wires, to supervise the writing of all our invasion stories-all this is part of the Battlefronts assignment of Senior Editor Charles Wertenbaker, whose own first hand feel of the invasion news comes from three months at the front with the American troops now fighting in Sicily...
...trickle of U.S. Lend-Lease aid which began in March 1941 has swelled into a mighty torrent. Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. an nounced that in March 1943 Lend-Lease exports reached $708,000,000, highest monthly total to date. Russia now receives 31% of the total aid ("the overwhelming majority of supplies are arriving"), the United Kingdom, 38%. At the end of March, two years after the program be gan, the total value of Lend-Lease aid had reached...
Burning the State Department's hands since mid-March has been a voluminous report on working conditions in Bolivia. In Washington and La Paz, officials debated whether to suppress it or release it, and perhaps bring down a torrent of criticism on 1) Bolivia, and 2) Tin King Simon I. Patino, whose miners precipitated the whole business by striking four months ago (TIME...
...work of the Radio Section has been acknowledged by a torrent of military fan mail. Comedian Bob Hope closed one Command Performance broadcast with the remark that if the boys wanted Songstress Ginny Simms to purr another number, "just tear off the top of a Zero and send it in." The boys sent a big hunk of wing with the Rising...
...would be delivery of food to Russia, where "millions are threatened with starvation." He conceded that until now only a small part of the weapons used against the Axis had been of American make; he promised that in 1943 the tide of planes and tanks would turn into a torrent...