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...campaign moved into high gear. The U.S. people, big & small, prominent and nameless, began to make up their minds, choose sides, form organizations, collect funds, hurl epithets...
Then, as if he had deliberately taken hold of himself, the President put his voice in its normal gear of geniality...
...cannot get prosperity if we put tax brakes on business before it gets into high gear...
Friendly Winter. The German attack in June 1941 caught the Red Air Force by surprise. Appalling numbers of Red planes were destroyed on the ground. In the air, the Russians were outnumbered, outgunned and outflown. They fought on until winter brought a breathing spell. The Russians had landing gear which could be easily switched to skis, and they knew how to keep their engines and lubricants from freezing. The Germans did little about the winter except to complain. That year Rus sian winter grounded more of the Luftwaffe than Russian air action...
...Level. The wingspread is 141 ft. 2 in., the fuselage length 98 ft., and the single tail fin (which has a strong family resemblance to the B-17's familiar tail fin) is 27 ft. high. The Superfortress departs' from previous Fortress custom in having tricycle landing gear -three sets of twin wheels-so that its fuselage, like that of the tricycle-geared Liberator, is tail-up and level on the ground...