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...penguins, an octopus, a mummy case, etc. He informs his nurse that she "has the touch of a love-starved cobra" regards his physician as the "greatest living argument for mercy killing"; warns his favorite wayward actress (Ann Sheridan), who arrives to pay her respects, not to "try to pull the bedclothes over my eyes"; dismisses his secretary as a "flea-bitten Cleopatra...
...others had the same idea. . . . Finally the motorboat tipped over, hurling us all into the sea.* I saw the black silhouette of a destroyer about 75 yards ahead. . . . I managed to propel myself forward and hang on to a ladder, safe, but so spent I couldn't pull myself up. At that moment a life raft drifted against the destroyer's side. It banged my head against the warship and I cried out time and again: 'Stop it. You're killing...
...pursuit ship alone takes 20,000 man-hours. Thus the 60,000-plane program needs over a billion man-hours. This could be supplied by 500-600,000 men working 300 eight-hour days in 1942. Planemakers already have about 230,000 shop workers, plan to pull thousands more from training schools and civilian industries. In floor space, they hope to avoid huge plant additions by more subcontracting...
...Please pull down the shades on front campus. The boys don't want you staring at them while you dress for the prom...
...Aluminum weighs one-third as much as steel, but [stainless] steel is more than four times as strong as aluminum in pull and tension. Recent developments in structure mathematics now enable us, even in small planes, to build trusses of thin stainless steel of equal weight to duralumin [an alloy containing 95% aluminum, 4% copper, ½ % manganese and ½ % magnesium while in larger ships there is a greater advantage to the steel construction...