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...dazzling vista in U.S.-British relations opened last week: an American officer praised the British climate. Reporting that the health of troops in Britain is the best of all the expeditionary forces in U.S. history, Brigadier General James S. Simmons, director of the Army's Division of Preventive Medicine, said that one of the main factors was "the healthful, temperate climate" of the British Isles...
...Lockland's resident Army inspection chief, Major Frank La Vista, testified that 400 plane motors were turned down in July on the final test run because of faulty parts. He cited another instance in which three engines, packed for shipping, were found by him to be defective. The company then rechecked 89 other engines packed for shipping, found flaws in a number of them...
...seen the inside of many a prison; he had come to loathe confining walls. In World War I his principles had shifted: he had become an imperialist and a nationalist; he had started on the path to lofty offices, an open balcony, spreading maps of empire and the windy vista of Fascism...
Many U.S. war plants have set up recreation centers for their employes. But the real California touch was applied last week by Rohr Aircraft Corp. (plane parts) at Chula Vista. For its 8,000-odd employes, Rohr took a five-year lease on the swank $250,000 San Diego Country Club, with 158 acres of golf, tennis, Softball, croquet, badminton, horseback-riding, picnicking and bar-rooming. To accommodate all three Rohr shifts, the club will operate 24 hours...
...look like barns-which many people consider very beautiful-have made the reputation of Pietro Bel-luschi, architect of Portland, Ore. This week for the first time he plans to hang out his own shingle. He will hang it on the same Jefferson Street house (under Portland's Vista ''Suicide" Bridge), long occupied by the defunct firm of which he had been a member (A. E. Doyle & Associate...