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McDonough Bros, was founded as a saloon by Patrick McDonough, a retired police sergeant. His two sons, Pete and Thomas, tended bar. The McDonoughs began writing bail bonds as a favor to lawyers who tippled at their bar. When they learned that the lawyers were charging their clients for these bonds, they began charging too. After old man Mc Donough died, Pete ripped out the bar, dealt solely in bail bonds, soon became a millionaire...
...Negro company of the 367th Infantry at Camp Claiborne, La., a black first sergeant spoke dire words: "From now on when Ah blows dis yere whistle, Ah wants to see a huge impenetratable cloud of dust come boilin' outa them tents. An' when 'at dust clears away, Ah wants to find three rows of statues...
Legs akimbo, half lying on their parachute packs, nine Marines lounged on the bare metal floor. The tenth stood before an open hatch in the side of the plane. A little older than the others, he was the sergeant and jump-master; he would be the first through the hatch. Now, while the plane rushed toward the spot chosen for this practice jump near Fredericksburg, his hands were raised above his head, gripping a cable which ran the length of the cabin...
...sergeant standing by the hatch suddenly turned and spoke. His men clattered to their feet. Trailing from the back of each man's pack was a 15-foot "static cord," with a buckle on the free end. Each man reached down, seized the buckle, snapped it to the overhead cable. They crowded into line, right hand on the shoulder of the man in front, shuffled toward the hatch. The sergeant tensed his body, flexed his knees down and out, dived. His static cord whipped straight behind him, tightened, yanked the canvas cover from his 'chute...
Before the sergeant's 'chute had billowed into a white cloud just below and behind the plane's tail, the second man had jumped. Within ten seconds, the cabin was empty. The 'chutes drifted compactly together, behind the clump from the other plane, scudding swiftly downwind. The crews aboard the planes circling overhead saw the first jumpers hit ground, roll, vanish among their flattening parachutes. A flight sergeant yelled: "Hell, they're in the trees!" Some of the 'chutists had indeed gone into the trees; one landed in a creek. Damage: a couple...