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...answer that no other nation is rich enough to make. A new plane design no longer stops production lines. The U.S. builds a new line, drops the old model only when the new one rolls off the new lines. Then the old line is stopped, torn down, retooled for a third type. The U.S. now has fluidity in design without accompanying drops in production curves...
...fellows-Stirlings, Halifaxes, Manchester. They pulled over Cologne with split-second precision, while lighter bombers-Beauforts, Bostons, Hampdens-engaged German fighters or whirled low over the targets, sowing incendiaries. When the big bombs began to land, the heart of Cologne burst into flame. Shattered buildings tumbled, great craters were torn in the ground. All this airmen saw from aloft, where the light of Cologne's fires was soon bright enough to illuminate the blacked-out attackers...
Starting at Home. The Judge has added to his store of knowledge about human nature in these three years. He watched witnesses squirm before him, torn by loyalty to crooked friends, by the desire to save their own hides. He noticed a queer phenomenon: some turned wringing wet with sweat, others parched so that their skin peeled. He believes that all were relieved when they finally told the truth. Under the glass top of his desk he kept a Walter Scott couplet for all to read and ponder: Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice...
...bringing millions of Government dollars into his State, Tennessee's aging, knob-nosed, spoils-loving Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar loves TVA. But he hates TVA's hard-working Director David E. Lilienthal. Last week, torn between love and hate, he turned his Valley grudge into a mountain feud...
...change their whole setup, as they would if the class divisions disappeared. But more important, such a plan will help Freshmen to make more friends among men of their own age and class, and halt any further segregation of a college whose social and intellectual cohesion is already torn apart by its great number of students and their widely divergent interests...