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...shouted or said a word. With thick, fumbling fingers we unlatched the safety belts. General Lee slumped forward, dazed and winded. It was his luck to be the only one knocked out. Most of our passengers scrambled out into the battle, left one officer and me to drag wiry, 48-year-old General Lee out on to the ground. A young paratrooper came by, stared in awe at the wreck, then laughed and said: "Jeez! You must have guts...
...major independent finance company. Last year Transamerica added three small war babies (a foundry, two aircraft-parts manufacturers) and a tobacco company (Axton-Fisher, Fleetwood cigarets) to its portfolio. But last week embattled old A. P. was back on his old stamping grounds, engaged in a knockdown, drag-out fight to gain control of another bank...
...neat drag bunt laid down the first-base line in the sixth inning was all that kept Captain Warren "Moe" Berg from an absolutely perfect performance Saturday afternoon, as the Crimson nine notched a 3 to 0 triumph over Northeastern...
China's Punch. Behind these fronts, Japan is busy. Three weeks ago Premier Tojo paid a flying visit to Puppet Wang Ching-wei in Nanking. There plans were laid for the use of occupied areas as a weight to drag down the free areas. Where as China once used the occupied areas against Japan - by scorching the earth, by guerrilla interruptions - Japan will now use the same areas to blockade Free China, to bolster Japan's economy constructively while Free China's economy withers...
Proposer Lambert and Laborite John Tinker, who had seconded the nomination, then advanced purposefully on Brown, to drag him from his seat. As Brown made the requisite gesture of protest, the two men seized his arms, separated him from his chair. (Origin of this tradition: during the 15th Century, Speakers were apt to be hanged by the King, so a new Speaker was understandably reluctant...