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...East and West Coast when the Panama Canal opened. This week Chicago's Association of Commerce will bring forth a map-sprinkled plan to make Chicago as strategic to air transport as it is to the railroads. Chicago's genial Mayor Ed Kelly is preparing chest-thumping speeches to that effect; United Air Lines President William Patterson has already mounted the stump. But Chicago's plans are already beyond speechmaking; surveys have been made of 72 possible airport sites in the area, twelve of them suitable for huge bases. The biggest: a $35,000,000 dream port...
...Inefficient transportation, idle factories, high taxes, famine. Material conditions and morale of the people went down each year. "The Government propaganda authorities had to withdraw the posters showing Franco in a heroic pose, with arms crossed over his chest. ... To stand with arms folded is the symbol of unemployment in Spain, and too many disillusioned Spaniards had scrawled over the poster...
...anesthetic cone, Lipes used a tea strainer through which the patient breathed ether; for the incision, a broken-handled scalpel from the ship's medicine chest; for antiseptic, alcohol drained from torpedoes; for muscle retractors (to hold the incision open), bent tablespoons. Oversize rubber gloves encumbered Lipes. After cutting through layers of muscle, he took 20 minutes to find the appendix. "I think I've got it," Lipes finally whispered. "It's curled around the blind gut. . . . More flashlights, another battle lantern...
...fans. One evening he rode up to a San Diego camp theater with a general in a jeep, hopped out, swaggered through a crowd of Marines and declared: "I don't know about you fellows, but I'm with the general." Whereupon the general stuck out his chest too, observed: "I don't know about you fellows, but I'm with Bob Hope...
...there a charred head, hairless but still equipped with blackened eyeballs; pink, blue, yellow entrails drooping; a man with a red bullet hole through his eye; a dead Jap private, wearing dark, tortoise-shell glasses, his buck teeth bared in a humorless grin, lying on his back with his chest a mess of ground meat. There is no horror to these things. The first one you see is the only shock. The rest are simple repetition...