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...Haiti they called on a rich cream-colored Harvard classmate of Big Boy's and saw a libidinous so-called voodoo dance. In England Longstreet talked to a nice tart and a nice Lord. In Paris there was a countess who admired gangster slang: "What do you know, you mug, about this gimmick?" In Germany he saw the old vicious guns of World War I scrapped in a field near Kiel, read in the papers of an America no American has ever seen, and talked to a brave old pastor who was ''headed as sure as Christ...
Blunt-nosed, cream-colored, the plastic Ford looks much like any other 1942 automobile. It has a standard Ford 60 chassis, engine, wheels. But the plastic body cuts its total weight from 3,000 lb. to 2,000. The body consists of 14 panels (formed in 1,000-ton presses) attached to a tubular steel frame...
From millions of U.S. kitchens, attics, cellars, industrial nooks & crannies poured millions of pots & pans, kettles, hair curlers, meat cutters, ice-cream dippers, anything and everything made of aluminum. Just how much usable aluminum-for-defense was collected will not be known until the mountains of donated scrap are melted down. (None of it can be used in defense industry, but this scrap will release virgin aluminum that can be so used.) But long before the last pot had clattered into the last community bin, the drive had shown what happens when the U.S. citizenry is given something specific, useful...
...rationing milk. There was no lack of milk for thirsty children; homes, hospitals, relief agencies got their milk deliveries as usual. But panicky mothers, fearing the milk supply would be shut off, tried to stock up. The 40% of New York's milk that goes into ice cream, butter, cheese and evaporated milk was cut to a trickle. The Dairy Farmers' Union had called a strike, choked off some 3,000,000 of New York City's normal 7,000,000 quarts...
...though they had had weeks of patrol action.* They did their job really well. Attacked by several Messerschmitts, they shot down three, damaged two others. The youngest of them all, Gregory Augustus Daymond, 20, a Montana-born commercial pilot who once flew in South Africa for an ice-cream king, bagged one. At short range he shot away a " 'schmitter's" aileron, and the plane lurched and floated down so awkwardly that Daymond "didn't wait to see what happened because I was quite satisfied I had got him." Four days later in a similar action Eagle