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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern German submarines are as far advanced over the undersea ships of 1914 as modern planes are over planes of World War I. Some of the long-range types can travel 14,520 miles on a single load of fuel. Refueled and reprovisioned by undersea tenders ("milk cows"), they can remain at sea for months at a time. Monstrous metal whales, 220 ft. long with a 20-ft. beam, they carry in their bellies a dozen torpedoes, a crew of 45. When submerged they displace 882 tons (about half the displacement of a typical destroyer...
Such memories of the past were evoked last fortnight by a superb exhibition of 69 paintings at Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery. There fortunate Francophiles could travel, in three rooms, all the way from Paris to the sea. People who had never been to France could get a very good idea of what affected those...
...extent and method of supervision must be watched all the more carefully. Up to now, freedom of the air waves has not been dangerously impaired, but the mysterious censorship of the political charges of radio commentators is the first step in the opposite direction from which we want to travel...
...domestic front a new crisis brewed in the battle against inflation. The fight over the Army's size still awaited his decision. All these problems the President tackled with the verve of a man to whom travel is a tonic and a Clipper berth as restful as a feather...
Blitz Course. Toughest exercise of all was the 500-yd. blitz course which each trainee must travel alone. First he must vault a fence, then scale an 8-ft. wall, climb another fence, swing across a creek on a hanging rope. As he lands, a dummy Jap pops from behind a tree and must be bayoneted. As the trainee crosses a log another Jap drops near him and must be shot from the hip. Beyond various other obstacles the trainee reaches a climax at a 13-ft. wall atop a plateau, which he must scale with rifle ready...