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...along with many another Texas boy. You might never have known, except perhaps for the light in his old blue eyes when he looked up at us, that his own boy was off in China, ranging the flaming sky with the Flying Tigers against a new foe on a wider frontier...
...been in and out of practically all the big U.S. plane plants and training fields. He is a licensed pilot-and has flown more than 150,000 miles on assignment-to Alaska and Europe and all around the rim of South America. Probably he brings to his job a wider background knowledge of aviation-both in the flying field and the factory-than any writer in the country...
...last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next song, a beater was delegated to quell the disturber. Thomas lifted up his voice, the bullfrog chimed in. The beater cracked the water with his stick. The startled bullfrog shut his mouth. Singer Thomas opened his wider...
...stick together. The easygoing Egyptians have only to look at what has happened to other conquered countries to learn what will happen to their foodstuffs, money and personal liberties if the Nazis succeed. Prime Minister Mustafa El Nahas Pasha's pro-British Government is more stable, has wider popular support than the Government a year ago. The anti-British ex-Prime Minister Aly Maher Pasha has been jailed. Within recent weeks 200 other possible quislings have been arrested, a padlock put on the Cairo Royal Automobile Club, which since the war has been a spark plug of pro-Axis...
...bill last week Congress authorized the spending of more money on the Army alone than the total U.S. cost of World War I-$43 billion against $40 billion. Already the nation as a whole is bending its efforts to win on a far wider scale than in any former war, none excepted. And still the nation is in jeopardy...