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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloudy afternoon last week, twelve B-26 light bombers roared down the runway at Floyd Bennett Field, took off and disappeared to rendezvous for a bombing run on New York City. Minutes later, three radar stations in outlying areas, two manned by Canadians, one by Americans, had picked up the bombers and flashed instructions by radio to eight waiting Canadian Vampire jets and eight U.S. F47 Thunderbolts. "Operation Metropolis," a simulated air attack and defense of New York, was underway...
...want a pool of officers and men who know how both services work. Recently Canada's Naval Air Group 18 finished an intensive three-month course at Quonset Point, R.I. With U.S. pilots, they concentrated on detecting and bombing schnorkel submarines. This month, the Canadian destroyer Halda spent two weeks training in Chesapeake Bay, then sailed with a U.S. Navy amphibious force for a practice assault on the coast of Labrador...
...Philosophy," he once wrote, "is of account only if ... it affords guidance to action." Today, his life is full of action, and it is hard for him to remember "that I am an old man." He remarried at 87 (his first wife died in 1927), and at 89 adopted two more children. In the past ten years he has published three books, is now at work on a fourth. "If it is better to travel than to arrive," he says, "it is because traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going...
...Theiler, of the Rockefeller Foundation, for experimental work resulting in the production of two new yellow fever vaccines...
Meier & Frank, a 14-story, block-square department store in Portland, Ore., is the biggest in the Pacific Northwest. It is also easily the biggest advertiser (10% of the linage) in Portland's two daily newspapers, the morning Oregonian (circ. 213,135) and the evening Oregon Journal (circ...