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...usually a big day when the "guv'-ment buyers" come by. They are officers from the Remount depots and area stations. Remount's buyers travel some 50,000 miles a year over highways and byways, up the creek forks, in fields, pastures, cactus and brush. Sellers know these men want a sturdy, clean-footed, straight-legged horse that "travels right" (straight, no pacers), has good bone, short backs for Army saddles, that they prefer a horse that is ½ to ⅞ thoroughbred, that 75% of the horses they buy are from the Remount's own studs...
Whatever flaws they may pick in the plan, however much they may dislike labor's brashness in offering to help them run their business, steelmen, with the calculating eye of the Administration upon them, are not likely to brush the plan aside. (Several steelmen cooperated with Mr. Murray in his survey.) In one respect steelmen can feel pleased: it is a notable change for the better that labor should show eagerness not only to make demands for itself but to face the industry's problems...
Sportswriters chuckled at this brush-up between Millionaires Briggs & Bradley, but rival club owners were fit to be tied. "It certainly reeked of poor taste, particularly at this time of year," hissed one vexed bigwig. "Ballplayers find out soon enough what others are getting and use such figures as argument for more dough...
Dear Father: We had a grand day on Friday with three patrols. On the first we had a glorious dogfight with about nine Messerschmitt nos which caught a proper pasting. I must admit that they were heavily outnumbered. On the second trip we had an uneventful brush with some Messerschmitt 1095. It was the last trip which was the most fun. About twelve Junkers type 88 bombers came in and, after losing two from anti-aircraft fire, were set on by some Hurricanes. As we climbed up to them we had the pleasure of seeing one dart past us, hotly...
...rain, then at 6:45 p.m. happily down to a shallow lake on Richard King's Santa Fe Ranch near Edinburg, 80 miles southwest of Corpus Christi. The officers slept in the plane, were found next morning by two cowboys who led them out of the desert brush to the ranch house. Then Murray Hanson learned what happened to the men who had jumped at his order. One was killed; his parachute had been torn from his body. One was unhurt. Three were injured and in hospitals at Big Spring and Lamesa, Tex., 450 miles away...