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...coldly clear from the start that no dime-novel fliers are wanted. New cadets are greeted with the warning: "Re member that you are Naval officers as well as Naval aviators." To show that these are no idle words, the Navy spends the first six weeks of its precious training time schooling the novice cadets in its traditions, odd jargon and technical functions. Before a cadet can pin on the silver bar of a Second Classman - the happy sign that he is at last flying - he must bone up for many a long, hot and sleepy hour on the rudiments...
...that morning Franklin Roosevelt was a lucky man. He had committed the U.S. to the defeat of Hitler and the nation was still militarily unprepared; now the U.S. had gained at least a few precious days or weeks to push its arming, had found another great power besides Britain to keep Hitler occupied a little longer...
...thing they forget is that liberty and freedom and democracy are so very precious that you do not fight to win them once-and then stop. Liberty and freedom and democracy are prizes awarded only to those peoples who fight to win them and then keep fighting eternally to hold them...
Gold & silver, banknotes, securities and precious stones can now fly on U.S. planes all the way from San Francisco to Singapore for $2.38 a pound v. 14? for parcel post. Passengers can make the trip (semimonthly flights alternate with the trip to Hong Kong) for $825 ($485 minimum by steamer). But the new 1,500-mile Manila-Singapore hop is not likely to be self-supporting for some time. In Manila everyone regards it as an extension of the U.S. diplomatic arm-right to the heart of Britain's Far Eastern trouble zone...
...later years Belle ran a bandit headquarters at a place she called Younger's Bend, in Indian territory. Near there, in 1889, someone fired a load of buckshot into her back while she was riding. She was buried with her jewels and one of her precious pistols, which were afterward stolen by grave robbers...