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...world's biggest and best. The Army, with 27 divisions under arms and three more on the way, has all it can handle at the moment. Of the three services, the Air Force is the weakest. To increase it to 161 modern groups (138 combat groups plus 23 troop carrier and transport wings) within three years will cost a staggering sum, between $90 and $100 billion...
Meanwhile, both sides kept a cautious sparring stance. U.N. radar-guided planes flew through blinding rains, hammered at Red airfields, railroad yards, bridges, troop concentrations, supply dumps. U.N. warships ranged north of the parallel, shelled Red supply lines. Patrols slogged through quagmire roads, encountered enemy units on the same mission, felt out their strength and retired...
Field Work. In Chicago, after Scoutmaster Frank Singleton had given his troop a lesson in artificial respiration, he rushed out to fight a grass fire, was felled by smoke, quickly revived by his pupils...
...turn of the century, the old-style whalers were foundering to their finish, to be replaced by modern floating whale-oil factories. Harry became a landsman, and took up pharmacy. He went back to the sea in two World Wars, served as skipper of troop ships and cargo ships. "But who can find romance," he sneers, "in an engine thump?"-especially while...
...plot to assassinate Lincoln as he passed through Baltimore on the way to his inaugural; they persuaded the President to reroute his trip. During the Civil War, Allan Pinkerton became chief of the first U.S. Secret Service, and slipped through the Southern lines to send back reports of troop movements...