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...farmers have pledged not to employ Communists, and the industries are coming into line. We have not touched the question of Prohibition because we want a solid front. . . . Our sole purpose is to destroy Communism...
...altitude of only 2,000 ft., two flights of Harts passed over a Redland airdrome in a surprise attack before the interceptors could rise and engage them. Umpires announced that with a full load some of the new day bombers were 20 m.p.h. faster than the machines designed to destroy them. Second day of the maneuvers Redland's defenders gave up hope of beating Blueland in the air, concentrated on raids against Blueland's bases just as the fast bombers were taking...
Last and most dangerous of the Trace pirates was John Murrell, criminal extraordinary. A student of law, he sold slaves, sold them again and again, often killed them in the end to destroy the evidence. Murrell used to pass as an itinerant preacher. Said he once, describing one of his forays: "In all that route, I only robbed eleven men, but I preached some damn fine sermons." He planned a gigantic simultaneous uprising of slaves and white trash throughout the West, and his organizing genius almost succeeded in bringing it to a head. But he talked too much...
There is one type of structure, and only one, which the modern housewrecker with all his pneumatic drills and acetylene torches finds himself hard put to destroy. Even the late Jacob Volk, who called him- self ''the most destructive force in Manhattan," even the Napoleonic Herman Sonken of Kansas City, who has torn down whole towns and railroads in his time?even such experienced destroyers have much respect for vaults, especially vaults of reinforced concrete lined with steel...
While with the 51st Artillery, C. A. C. near Toul, France in 1918, I saw a lone enemy plane attack and destroy a captive balloon, miss a second, destroy a third, return and destroy the second, then fly home. The whole operation required but minutes, was done at a very low altitude (following a power dive) in broad day light, and in spite of the activities of anti-aircraft gunners stationed at balloon positions. I feel the same thing could be done today (TIME, June 23). I remember H. C. Barnes (then Major), onetime commander of our Battery...