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...done, and if I fail it means annihilation for me. ... At the least sign of slowing up, my enemies inside and out-side the Church would nail me. They wouldn't pay much attention to the sportsman's code about shooting a sitting bird...
...looks as if the President is due to get a bird: The Blue Eagle is coming home to roost and die. General Johnson's brain child born in a laboring, emotional crusade two years ago is having its neck wrung by Senator Clark's resolution. The Senator is giving the NRA nine more months to live; the President's proposal of two years is too long. Evidently now that the sun is shining, industry is getting more bold in telling the government to keep its hands...
...come what may, it will not be said that the White House in a time of sore need did not send out a kind bird of peace and protection for the country's industrial welfare. And now those Senators who want to send the kind bird back to the President plucked and beaten, had better proceed discreetly. There's always election time and eaglets are scarce...
...chief pilot, is partly responsible for a friend's fatal crash and at last goes out to die heroically in a fog over the Alleghenies. All this is accompanied by a buzz of ribaldry and shop talk (a program glossary explains that "cotton," "dirt," "gloom," "goo" and "bird-walking weather" all mean fog) from an assorted crew of mechanics, Government inspectors, plane manufacturers, insurance adjusters and fliers presided over by saturnine Osgood Perkins as the hard-bitten division superintendent...
...Puerto Carreno, Colombia, the chief of a hostile Indian tribe sent his braves prowling under the fuselage of a giant trimotored Ford transport plane to steal the "big bird's eggs," so that the chief could hatch planes of his own to fight the white...