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Thanks to the recklessness of sportsmen pilots, the Grumman plane repair shop did a brisk business even in 1930. The partners bought one plane which had dived into a lake until only its tail was visible, for $450. They fixed it up and sold it for $20,000. They also made aluminum trailers, and finally landed their first Navy contract for two amphibian floats...
Then, the Shouting. Down the Champs Elysees into the Place de la Concorde went the procession, at the pace of De Gaulle's brisk walk. There he and the dignitaries got into cars and the procession proceeded down Rue de Rivoli at 40 m.p.h. to the Hotel de Ville. There the Committee of Liberation received De Gaulle as head of the Provisional Government. Then the procession crossed the river to lie Saint-Louis and Notre Dame...
...Eddie deal exclusively with the movies, giving 20th Century-Fox a thrifty opportunity to trot out Betty Grable, Alice Faye, Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Sonja Henie, George Montgomery and other high spots clipped from 20th Century-Fox films. Like the picture's obstetrical exigencies, the pace is brisk. Benjamin Stoloff's direction is gingersnappy...
Then the Allies in the north began to move. Brisk, wiry Lieut. General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar's Canadian First Army moved behind a 1 ,000-plane breakout bombing, fought fiercely to set up bridgeheads over the Orne, battled a German bulge to the west in which Kluge vainly spent some of his reserves...
Tactical airmen, whose task is to blaze the way for troops on the ground, knew by now that they had done a job which would be a textbook model for all time. This pleased none of them more than their commander, big, brisk, breezy Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, R.A.F. For three years Air Marshal Coningham had set the pace for the trade...