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Over Kiel, Knoke had time to watch the heavy babies in action. "They dump their load right on the Germania shipyards. I am impressed by the precision with which those bastards bomb; it is fantastic." But precision had its price: by the end of 1943, Knoke had shot down 20 Allied planes, and had himself been shot down twice. A fat man in scarlet boots rewarded him with the Gold Cross...
...headed downward to level out at 12,000 ft. But before it could make an instrument landing, the bomber had to lighten its fuel load. For an hour and a half it circled the field, using up fuel. There was no place nearby where it could dump its dummy bomb load. By 10:30, it was ready to attempt a landing...
...rounds. Actually, there are often unaccountable delays, as Substitute Letter Carrier Willie Brown, 30, an unemployed Chicago machine operator, spectacularly proved on Christmas Eve. Willie took several drinks to brace himself for his work and then wove his way home with his mailbag still loaded. On arrival he jovially dumped 282 Christmas cards on the floor and directed his wife to open the envelopes and remove their contents. Even after Willie was ar rested, the Jackson Park postal station could do no more than ask the 282 mail-less taxpayers to come down and sort through the pile. Postal Inspector...
With this ceremony, the first of a new line of earthmovers, excavators and powered dump cars came off the assembly line in Japan. If the gods do look favorably on the enterprise, it will be because of the foresight of Julien R. Steelman, 47, president of Milwaukee's Koehring Co., which supplied know-how and a small amount of capital, and Japanese Industrialists Toshio Doko and Hiroyuki Hayashi, heads of Ishikawajima Heavy Industry, which furnished most of the capital and a plant. Together they formed the Ishikawajima-Koehring Co., to provide Japan with the tools for some...
...Crimson still has a chance to dump the depositors. Pro-season speculation had the varsity among the Heptagonal favorites, but illness and injuries have hurt the runners' showing all season. Much will depend on the individual performance of Captain Hal Gerry, Hubie Maguire, and Emil San Soucie...