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Feverishly through the night brilliant Chinese mechanics who knew plenty about improvisation, and backward Chinese coolies who did not even know the rudiments of Chinese kite-flying worked at patching plane and field. At the first streaks of grey the DC-2½, with one wing five feet longer than the other, roared down the field, took off with a lurch...
Aboard a yacht in Mobile Bay, Alabama's Adjutant General Ben M. Smith was presented to blue-eyed, blonde Evie Robert, wife of Contractor "Chip" Robert, former New Deal favorite. Courtly General Smith bowed low, took a step backward, prat-fell into the harbor...
...legs amputated, one at the thigh, one at the knee. He fitted himself with a pair of four-pound, duralumin, flexible-jointed legs designed by the brothers Desoutter, one of whom also lost a limb in an air crash. Douglas Bader learned to fox trot, play cricket, turn a backward somersault, finally had one leg shortened for further agility...
...overworked question of what-holds-back-defense-production, Alvin Earl Dodd, American Management Association president, last week gave a perspicacious answer. His answer: too many of 1941's executives and workers got their training in the Backward Thirties when the brakes were on initiative, the emphasis on managerial conservatism. But now the loudest cry is for dynamic expansion, more output, more speed. For many a man-at-the-wheel this hairpin turn has been too much; now time is lost while they try to regain the road...
...swing out over both sides of the record at once. Records are dropped from the stack on to a miniature turntable which leaves the grooved surface of both sides exposed. The upper side of the record is played by the upper prong. Then the record automatically begins to turn backward, and the lower prong plays the lower side. Then the record slips down a chute, and No. 2 drops into place...