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Your Aug. 24 story of Captain Austin King's use of salad oil to solve his hydraulic problem over Seoul in his C46 recalled the time our 6-24, Sweet Sue, took a German flak burst amidships early in '44, which pierced several small holes in our hydraulic lines...
With the pinkish hydraulic fluid spurting in our faces-and with no salad oil aboard to refill the draining hydraulic system-we stopped the leaks with chewing gum, reinforcing our handiwork with Band-Aids from the medical kits...
Short-changed on his fishing, Ike consoled himself with another favorite pastime-cooking. He took full responsibility for the party's meals, noisily clanged the big outdoor dinner bell whenever chow was on. (One day's menu: breakfast-flapjacks and sausage; lunch-potato salad and Ike's special vegetable soup, which takes two days to make; dinner-trout and roasting ears.) In between meals, he loafed around, sometimes worked on a new oil painting-a mountain landscape...
...desperation, King went aft into the cargo hatch, where twelve frightened passengers waited for the order to bail out. For the first time, he noticed the cargo: case after case of salad oil. King poured the salad oil into the faulty hydraulic system. The gear lowered smoothly, the plane landed safely, and Captain King and his grateful passengers shook hands and said goodnight...
...chosen to study. By 1920, with the late Merritt Lyndon Fernald, he finished his first book: Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America (not published until 1943). For the distinguished members of the New England Botanical Club, Kinsey and Fernald spent days preparing a wild dinner: cold pigweed salad, pickles from cucumber root, bread from the acorns of swamp white oaks, squawberries, a cake of ground hickory nuts filled with blueberries and topped with maple syrup. It was, he reports, a great success...