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...Boeing's B-17 Fortress and Consolidated's B-24 Liberator (now medium bombers compared to the new heavies...
...explained to his officers that the Germans were pushing out of the town in more and more strength, and that if they chose to attack we'd be in trouble. Some medium tanks, attached to his unit but not in his command, were, in his perhaps biased opinion, being hesitant about coming on up the road and engaging heavier German tanks. Furthermore, said the captain, the little infantry he had attached to the troop, and the little more in position just outside the town, were not enough to keep the Germans back...
Hellcat's Father. The father of the Hellcats is a medium-sized, 49-year-old man. He has a pink face, seamed with hundreds of tiny wrinkles, sharp, bright blue eyes, sandy red hair and the twanging voice of a New England storekeeper. He is stoop-shouldered and extraordinarily shy, moves about as if he hopes no one will notice him. A Navy flyer, meeting him for the first time, said: "You don't look like the guy who builds Hellcats." Roy Grum man looks more like the suburban fellow who lives next door...
Merchants in big, medium-sized and small cities have made plans for closing their stores on V-day. V-day instructions are either complete or imminent in Manhattan, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Kansas City, Dallas, Helena, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Des Moines, Portland, Richmond, Indianapolis, Detroit...
...same way as Dr. Alexander Fleming's finding of penicillin. The Buffalo researchers noticed a green fungus growing on a culture of tubercle bacilli stored in an icebox. The mold seemed to have an affinity for the tubercle germ; it did not grow well in any other medium. It produced a substance (not penicillin, which has been ineffective against tuberculosis) that checked the growth of tubercle bacilli. A preparation from the mold neutralized tuberculin in two hours...