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...1920s he was one of the Army's top airship pilots. Nine years ago he and Captain Albert W. Stevens took an Army-National Geographic Society balloon to 60,613 ft. over South Dakota before the bag ripped and they had to leave their airtight gondola (roared Bill Kepner into his radio mike: "This damned thing has gone nuts!") Not until the gondola had plummeted to 500 ft. did he jump. It was his last big experience with ballooning. Already an airplane pilot, he became one of the Army's best fighter commanders...
...were cooking something in boiling water and wanted to hurry, you should (a) increase the heat so the water would boil more rapidly, (b) put a cover on the pot (c) pour off some water, (d) use an airtight cooker...
There isn't much point to concentrating on an airtight defense when the other team is out in front, so Johnny Chase is planning to trip up Murray Murdoch's masterminding by getting out in front and forcing the Elis to take the initiative. The championship of the Big Three will definitely be decided in the rubber game in the Boston Garden at 8:15 o'clock tonight...
Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week relaxed the airtight censorship on political news which had prevailed in North Africa since the Allied landings last November. The smell of intrigue was worse than even the profoundest pessimists had imagined. Wrote unemotional Drew Middleton, correspondent of the even more unemotional New York Times, just back in Algiers from a trip to the Morocco bailiwick of General Auguste Nogues...
...economy, he cannot be tagged as isolationist, or Old Guard. As Governor he has not been forced to take a positive position on national or international affairs. In his first year as Governor (1939) he turned a $40,000,000 deficit into a $3,000,000 surplus by airtight squeezing of the State treasury, and at the expense of cities, school districts, public relief. When a relief crisis developed late that year, many a liberal complained about letting Ohio's unemployed go hungry. Bricker answered that the question was one of city responsibility and made a hit with...