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Spring preparation will be hampered this year by the fact that the Le Baron Briggs Cage has been taken over for calisthenics by servicemen and given an asphalt floor, but indoor work for pitchers and catchers will go on as usual...
...Montgomery, athletic officer, the junior and senior classes have organized a round robin basketball tournament, with games on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 1715. Monday's contests found the seniors winning their games at will, but as soon as the junior teams become better organized and accustomed to Briggs' asphalt courts, the contests should be more spirited. Standings, if available, will be posted in this column from time to time...
Airdrome runways are built by coolie-hand. At the main base three Americans direct thousands of Chinese laborers in the constant process of reconstruction and repair. Asphalt and concrete runways are practically unknown; most of the strips are paved with mud, hand-poured and bound with crushed rock. On a very few fields the Fourteenth has strips of the Chinese version of asphalt, made of tung oil, resin, sand and hand-chipped rock...
...which would be nonreflecting and flexible, yet would take paint so well that the flat-surface buildings, roads, trees, rocks painted on it would trick the eyes of Axis airmen. The company finally hit upon 1½ in.-mesh poultry wire, to which chicken feathers are glued with an asphalt adhesive. Because feathers are tough to handle, stick together on damp days, swirl around in the smallest breeze, methods and machines had to be devised to handle them. A special plant was designed to make the wire (20,000 sq. yd. daily) and feed the feathers (25 lb. to every...
Italian Blessings. Brutal in conquest, the Italians were energetic imperialists. Their engineers, with sweating soldier-workmen and native labor, blasted, graded, bridged and finally smoothed 4,340 miles of asphalt and macadam highway over Ethiopia's desert areas, muddy lowlands, rolling valleys, deep ravines and high, broad plateaus. Some 10,000 miles of lesser roads were opened...