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...Strait, the Perseus had stopped at U. S.-owned Little Diomede Island with a mission: to find out what was afoot on Soviet-owned Big Diomede just one and a half miles away and across the International Date Line (see map). The crew said that Russian workmen were building an airplane hangar on Big Diomede, replacing its radio station with a bigger one, that Big Diomede with its smooth ice runways ten months of the Arctic year, was being made into an advance weather, communications and flying station...
...York; 10:20 in Denver; 9:20 in the Pacific Coast cities. It was the nocturnal life of the U. S. that caught his words and their intonation-the taxi drivers, the sleepless passengers in deluxe trains, the patrons of bars and restaurants-most workmen and farmers were long since asleep...
...that the nation's school system could handle the new load. Its technical schools (including 155 engineering colleges) are the world's best-equipped (outstanding: Milwaukee Vocational School). They have 35,000 highly trained teachers, a $1,250,000,000 plant. Normally they turn out 500,000 workmen a year who could be used in defense industries-machinists, lathe operators, sheet metal workers, auto mechanics, aircraft mechanics. Commissioner Studebaker's goal: to step the number...
...Education Commissioner John W. Studebaker began to mobilize the nation's public schools to train workmen to man war industries, proposed to turn out 550,000 mechanics in short order. New York City's huge school system, already busy training 3,000 airplane mechanics, prepared to run its technical schools 24 hours...
...equal to Memphis' total daily consumption), engineers swarmed over the ground laying out the sites for more than 100 buildings, widely separated to cut down damage from explosion. Memphis businessmen calculated that when the mill begins operations about Oct. 1 it will employ around 5,000 workmen, may well be giving work to twice that number when it gets into full production on Jan. 1. To Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi cotton growers the plant water also good news because explosive for Allied guns will require thousands of tons of cotton and cotton linters (waste from ginning operation...