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...tool (until now a military secret) is a tube which looks like a pea shooter. It has a waterproofed electrode which heats metal electrically to 6,000-10,000° F., and a jet which shoots a stream of pure oxygen, slicing rapidly through the molten plate...
...alive and unhurt after so many days when I woke up in the morning wondering if I would be dead before night." But as soon as he heard of the attack he headed back toward the battles. He was with General Vandenberg all through the terrible days when the pea-soup fog kept our tactical air force grounded, finally got back to the front with General Patton's men east of Bastogne...
...bitter confusion of the German breakthrough the Army clamped down a censorship thicker than the pea-soup fog that shrouded the great German counterattack. Communiqués were as much as 48 hours behind the event. When they came they were meager and vague. Correspondents blew...
...pea-green freshman, hitherto the lowest form of campus life, is wearing a hero's helmet this fall. Without him there would be little or no college football -except at West Point and Annapolis...
...this report (he, too, had been given a friendly Roosevelt back pat) that he called back all advance copies of his address nominating Franklin Roosevelt for Term IV, and threatened not to make the speech at all. Cried "Dear Alben": "I certainly don't know which shell the pea is under...