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...well done flash-back puts Cooper into a $750,000 New York house and lands Sagittarius right in the middle of the fifth house of Jupiter. With the stars and Teresa Wright--Isabel Drury's mother against him, the house goes up in smoke, and Cooper's spur of the moment marriage with Isabel, a Barnard girl, ends on the proverbial rocks. The flashback fades, and Morgan-Cooper banter lights up the scene to dispel the otherwise shady atmosphere of the proceedings. Cas, with a slightly overworked conscience, takes a powder to Chicago on general principles to look the situation...
...These flash strikes were almost never individually serious, but their cumulative total was. If walkouts continue at the present rate, labor will hang up a new record in 1944 of 5,200 strikes in one year. (During the six-year period between 1927 and 1932, inclusive, the total number of strikes was 4,520, but only one-third the number of people working now were employed then.) This means that work stoppages, despite labor's no-strike pledge for the duration, are occurring more frequently now than at any time during the past 25 years...
...that reopened rocket experimentation, and really started the modern era of rocket research. In it Goddard not only showed how to reach "high altitudes" theoretically, but also gave considerable space to ways of reaching the moon, and gave the results of some experiments he had made to send some flash powder to the moon, so earthly astronomers could see the hit. He calculated that only a little flash powder would do the job: 2.67 Ib. for a "just-visible" flash, and 13.82 to be "strikingly visible...
Every enlisted man was a noncom except for a few private ratings, kept handy for "busting" unruly members. The Force wore its own branch insignia (crossed arrows), its own shoulder flash (a vertical "Canada" lettered on an arrow, topped by a horizontal "U.S.A...
...only other regular to stay in the .300 category was third baseman Morty Dunn, Freshman flash, who hit .308 in garnering 11 total bases. Bob Capaccio, right fielder and another member of the Class of '48, collected 15 total bases, hitting...