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Although this move meant a possible delay in the repeal of Section 6, and a probable knockdown, drag-out fight, it was also a stride toward honesty in facing the real issue: How much more is the U.S. going to do against Hitler...
Then, as Ramberg walked to the door of the room, he staggered and fell. His wife tried to drag him outside. She too dropped unconscious from the fumes. When a neighbor called later, he found Dorothy babbling crazily. Her husband was still lying on the floor...
...dream ship is an entirely new type of airplane: a tailless, two-engined flying wing. The idea itself is not new. Long have designers known that the tail of an airplane, necessary as it always has been for rudders, elevators, leverage, is a drag on a plane's speed. So Jack Northrop started on a new design 18 years...
...clear inference was that he had to say it because his own people were full of anxiety about the way the war with Russia was dragging. The millions at their radios, the thousands who packed Berlin's Sport-palast, the few dozen handpicked disabled veterans who sat close to the podium where Hitler spoke-all knew that this war had already taken a terrible toll in lives and hardship. He had to say it because he himself was full of anxiety lest British and U.S. aid make the war drag even more...
...took the draft to drag 30-year-old Carlton N. Krause from his home at Ogdensburg, Wis. (pop. 207). Before last spring Homebody Krause had never wandered far from his dairy farm, the woods, the tools he used to bore his own gun barrels. Only once had he seen the State's metropolis, Milwaukee, 115 miles from home...