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...month-old story, finally released by the censor last week, suggested how much the Allies tried to do at Anzio with how little. The story, by the Montreal Star's Sholto Watt, described the exploits of a unique unit of mixed Canadian and U.S. troops, known unfavorably to the Germans as the men "with funny pants and dirty faces...
...carried on somewhat like the airplane designers who picked up where the Wright brothers left off. Credit for discovery of the 20-year-old radar principle is in dispute between two U.S. Navy researchers, A. Hoyt Taylor and Leo C. Young, and a Scottish physicist, Sir Robert A. Watson-Watt. The British were the first to use radar (which they call the radio locator) in the Battle of Britain. But OSRD has converted the first crude radar into something of almost human intelligence and with superhuman powers...
...Foreign Policy Association; Major George Fielding Eliot, John W. Vandercook and Sydney Moseley, commentators; Harry Scherman, president of the Book-of-the-Month Club; former Supreme Court Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney; the Rev. Robert W. Searle, general secretary of the Greater New York Federation of Churches; Robert J. Watt, international representative of the American Federation of Labor...
When handsome, white-topped Edward R. Stettinius became Under Secretary of State, things perked up. The State Department's crusty old walls got a coat of paint. Higher-watt light bulbs blossomed in the dim hallways. Officials of the traditionally standoffish Department stepped up to NBC microphones with a weekly series of folksy Saturday night dialogues ("The State Department Speaks"). Last week the streamlining reached a climax. The Department announced a stem-to-stern shake-up of its whole shop-a reorganization to grapple more realistically with the new U.S. role in a new kind of world...
...watt mercury vapor lamp (so hot that it must be water-cooled) which is one-fifth as bright as the sun at its surface. It could be used for lighting factories, large halls, athletic fields...