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...operation has been successful," declared British Brigadier J.A.R. Robertson. "We have reinstated the Sultan's forces. Political control is developing." To make sure that the right kind of "political control'' continues to develop. Britain will maintain an airstrip at Firq, but will withdraw most of its regular troops...
...carving with jackhammer, and finally with mallet and chisel. On top of his mountain he can see far into the future. "There is where the university will be," he says, "and over here the medical center. The series of lakes will run down that meadow. There will be an airstrip, 7,200 feet long, out there by the highway...
...trip itself, said Bush, was uneventful. They maintained an altitude of between 500 and 1,000 ft., were waved at by groups of people, finally put down on an unused airstrip at the confluence of two unidentified rivers near Changsha in Hunan province...
...hotel. He is also busy developing the island of Eleuthera, 75 miles east of Nassau in the Bahamas. There, Davis, who has five other homes on the mainland, has already built himself a palatial hideaway on a 30,000-acre property, has opened up a harbor, built an airstrip, an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones, and 30 guest houses. He hope to turn Eleuthera into a tropical paradise for "rich millionaires" who do not want to rub elbows with the mere millionaires at Boca Raton...
With only two weeks' rest, the Marauders were next flung into a drive on the Myitkyina airstrip itself. Against the odds, they captured it in mid-May 1944, just as Merrill returned to lead them-only to suffer a second heart attack soon after. When Japanese reinforcements arrived, a major battle developed in which the disease-ridden Marauders (now only 1,310 strong) were ordered to participate with far larger conventional forces of Chinese and British Empire troops. In the desperate Allied effort to hold on, a call for every able-bodied man forced many incapacitated Marauders back...