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...Future is Still Clouded. Mass production of a complicated chemical product split into many component parts can produce all kinds of unexpected bugs. Though at least theoretically, raw materials and equipment are not as hideously short as rubber itself, any holdup there could wreck the program all over again...
...Society has sound reasons for this course. Peace-loving U.S. Quakers have been split for more than a century by bitter religious differences; only since World War I have Friends managed to bring about something like Quaker unity. They are very reluctant to let any new issue disturb that unity-especially since Midwestern Evangelical Quakers (who are strong on doctrine) still look askance at East Coast Quakers, many of whom are Hicksites who put the authority of the Inner Light before the authority of the Bible...
...returned to their barracks and slept through the midnight hour when the A.V.G. passed into the U.S. Army Air Forces. Said rangy, blond Major Tex Hill: "People don't seem to understand you got feelings. When you work and fight together for a long time you hate to split up. It's like something going out of your life...
Fights & Foes. Fly's most immediate fight is in Congress against the Sanders Bill, which proposes sweeping changes in the communications act, one of which would split FCC into two divisions and strip the chairman of much of his authority. His major opponents are CBS and NBC, which consider Fly prejudiced and think he wants to reform them out of business; the National Association of Broadcasters, which Fly has delighted to compare to John Randolph's dead mackerel in the moonlight ("It shines and stinks"), and newspaper owners, whom Fly is frankly trying to keep...
...basic problem was to teach a man the tricks of playing safe when he moved in three dimensions, so that he knew where he was in relation to the earth during each split-second of a maneuver. Flyers often get too cocky in acrobatics, wheel their mounts around at too low an altitude to recover safely if something goes wrong...