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...haunted by the necessity of economy in the use of their too-few aircraft, inspired by the genius and unerring tactical wisdom of Major General Claire Lee Chennault. On the ground it is a strange compound of unselfish human labor: patient Chinese who work miracles by numbers and sweat where machines are inadequate or just not available; windburned Americans in dusty coveralls who whoop and holler as they work, spend their off hours talking about home...
...other U.S. mother had seen so much of the panorama of the war, had been closer to the sweat and boredom, the suffering. Eleanor Roosevelt had ridden in jeeps, reviewed troops, rubbed elbows with some more of the world's great, had seen places under enemy attack. But it was of the men she had seen and talked with that she wanted to tell. As one mother speaking to other mothers she reported on her trip to the far-off places of the Pacific. Highlights of her report...
...grove of oak trees. Here is no telephone, no mail delivery; only a yawning fireplace, walnut beds, and electric stove for steak broiling and an old-fashioned icebox, usually filled with watermelons. Here, on the hot summer afternoons, Sam Rayburn lolls around, often in his shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence-posts hewed out of bois d'arc (pronounced, in Texas, bo-dark), or sits popping huge chunks of red watermelon into his mouth from the end of a rancher's stiletto, or plays a little dominoes with...
...like crushed quartz, is riddled with invisible pores so numerous that a cubic inch has more than 50,000 square feet of interior surface. By adsorption (sticking of moisture to the surface), silica gel can hold half its own weight in water without swelling, caking or developing a visible sweat...
Losses reported last week were enough to make Marshal Göring break into a cold sweat. The U.S. Eighth Air Force proclaimed that it had shot down 631 Nazi fighters during August, a record for one month. Of the total, Flying Fortresses claimed the most...