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...widely scattered bases had received attention but nothing like concentrated attack. Chief targets were naval bases, commercial ports, oil dumps on the southwest, south and east coasts, and munitions plants in the north (Middlesbrough, Billingham, Greenock). London was bombed only around its fringes, suggesting the efficacy of its balloon barrage. Remarkable was the Germans' failure to attack Sheffield, where many of Britain's biggest guns are forged...
...qualities he extols, call him "The mad prophet of Teutonic superiority." Sanatorium wardens tap their heads and whisper "Vogel im Kopf" (bats in the belfry). When Fellow Dreamer Adolf Hitler sees occasion, however, he often revives Comrade Rosenberg from his traumatic reveries and uses him for launching a trial balloon into the disturbed European ether or even for making a definite pronouncement on Hitlerian plans. Last week, which saw the Führer acclaimed as the greatest warlord in history, was one of these occasions...
...floating to earth with an enormous white thing like a balloon above...
...their strong smell, said he, Congo natives made ideal patients. They endured pain "without a murmur," were "obedient," had "a strange resistance to post-operative infection even in the absence of ... ordinary sanitary precautions," were delighted with any operative results, no matter how gruesome. A man with a balloon-like tumor of the upper jaw had a large wedge of bone cut out. He called for a mirror and "spent most of the day admiring himself...
Intercollegiate air meets are nothing new. Thirty years ago, there were balloon meets among Eastern college students. Intercollegiate competition became national in 1935 when a dozen college clubs banded together to form the National Intercollegiate Flying Club, under the protective wing of the National Aeronautic Association. This year the N. I. F. C. boasts 46 college flying clubs, 1,000 individual members (more than double the membership a year...