A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 7, 1942

To answer some of the questions our subscribers have been asking about how TIME gathers, verifies, writes and distributes its news

Judging by our mail since last week's issue, hardly anybody missed the story way back on page 77 about how the Army is building our new highway to Alaska.

Everybody wants to know how we found out so much—where we heard about the mosquito that landed on the airport and had 85 gallons of gasoline pumped into it before they found it wasn't a bomber —how we knew about the fresh-baked cakes a...

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