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...blunt conclusion: If the U.S. continues "in the direction we are traveling now," it will run out of gasoline...
...receptacle, clutch gleefully in both hands, and with a heinous whoop," or whatever other sound may best express your innermost emotions, smash one at a time against the book-piled desk at which you've sat so many hot nights. After this act of delicious reprisal, grab the nearest blunt weapon, and bludgeon to permanent silence the obstinate object of your electronic muddle...
...idea got started when blunt, handsome, 38-year-old Surgeon Paul Sanger confided to General Marshall at a cocktail party in 1940 that the Charlotte doctors wanted to form an Army unit. The unit was authorized in December, went on active duty at Fort Bragg in March 1942, left for England Aug. 6, scrambled ashore in Africa Nov. 7 and was fully set up about ten miles from Oran a few days later. At Oran, the unit handled 2,027 patients...
...after the plane announcement, blunt Robert Porter Patterson, War Under Secretary, told the unpretty rest. In May, production of materiel for the Army Ground Forces had declined 3½% from the output of April. Actually, it had been scheduled to rise 2%. So it was a 5½% failure in production...
Candid Craft. The troop-carrying glider is a candid sort of aircraft, no secrets, nothing concealed. Canvas fabric covers the fuselage; in flight it vibrates like a drumhead. The whole craft is springy and alive as a new buggy. Pilot and copilot sit up in the blunt, transparent nose, a single row of instrument dials in front of them. The noise of rushing air is astonishing...