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...next hour was full of our boys parachuting down. Lucien landed in a pile of brush, wrapped himself in his parachute and went to sleep. Brick landed hard on his fanny on top of the next mountain peak and dozed off. One boy landed beside a mountain ledge, lit a cigaret in the dark, flicked the burnt butt on the ground beside him. He looked down and saw the butt dropping hundreds of feet below him into what seemed a bottom less void. He didn't move another foot until daylight. Crouch hit the ground about 20 miles from...
...weeks the crew of seven lived inside the PBY (with sleeping space for four), stranded on an uncharted peak 400 miles below the Arctic Circle. Lieut. Glister, navigator, told the story...
...than one-fourth of the needed replacements. With the war burning oil ever faster the ratio of new wells to use probably means far more pessimistic figures in 1943. The U.S. will not find itself out of oil tomorrow or the next day. But when the war reaches its peak, the pinch may come. To avert that pinch, wildcat oil wells must be sunk this year...
Transportation. The railroads' war boom now may also be Ringling's boom: they cut their itinerary to 8.000 miles (v. a previous peak of 20,000), decided to play longer runs in big towns east of the Mississippi (thus raising the gross and cutting expenses) and to plug such money-heavy war communities as Detroit. All the "bloomers" (towns with speculative box-office possibilities) were scratched. Excess baggage went overboard: the whole show now fits into 70 cars, moves in three trains (v. go in four trains last year...
Press agentry in the democracies has perhaps passed its peak. The release in June 1942 of certain important news of Pacific air and sea fighting in the form of a commercial plug-a congratulatory telegram from General Arnold to an aircraft manufacturer-was an incident that has not been, and probably will not be, repeated...