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Operation. The pressurized cabin of the B-29 is deflated during a bombing run. The crews plug in cords to their heated suits, don oxygen masks (the B-29 has, besides fixed valves, portable oxygen bottles to be carried when a man moves around, others which can be attached to the parachutes). This is done so that the crew can concentrate on the bombing job without having to worry about oxygen if the plane should...
...Most of the palace is shut off now. . . . 'Wartime severity, you know,' said Sir Press Agent. Unlike Broadway publicity boys, he didn't ask me to put in a plug for anything, except perhaps for the palace bathtubs which have rings painted around them at the five-inch level. That's for wartime conservation. The rule in Britain is that you bathe in five inches of water, maximum. . . . 'After all,' Sir Eric said, 'the royal family are people, you know...
Fish Story. In Montgomery, Ala., Fisherman Gene Handy was disgustedly reeling in his plug after several luckless hours when a big-mouthed bass suddenly jumped for the plug, missed, landed squarely in the boat. The bass weighed 10 lb., 4 oz., said Fisherman Handy...
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the flashy plug-ugly who became one of the war's great soldiers, is Inspector General of Western Defenses. At 52 Rommel still enjoys a home reputation little tarnished by the thrashing he finally took in Africa. His command, the mobile task force, is the ideal instrument for his attributes of daring and ingenuity, if he still has them...
...slim, boyish-looking sergeant walked last week into the shabby front room of a shack on Pittsburgh's gritty North Side. He sat down, and with grave deliberation pulled off his boots, then broke out a plug of tobacco. "First chance I've had for a good chew since I got back," he said. Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly was home...