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...China National Aviation Corp. has never carried breech blocks for Chungking anti-aircraft guns, or any other cargo which would jeopardize its position as a purely commercial line. This position has the complete support of the Chinese Government...
...there was the usual routine for Walter Sorensen: cleaning the breech-blocks and oiling the six 3-inch A.A.s, checking the trip-mechanisms for the ash cans (depth charges all set because the waters up around Iceland were, as the boys said, "stiff with subs"). It was hard work. The whole crew had been ordered onto Condition Baker-watch and watch, four hours on and four...
...American pilots and Chinese co-pilots fly mostly at night (bad weather preferred), blacked out, radios dead, very high, navigating by stars, by instruments, or by Oriental divining. They have carried over 2,000 passengers a year, over 1,000,000 Lb. of mail and cargo- ranging from new breech blocks for Chung-king's anti-aircraft guns to jars of American grape jelly for Madame Chiang Kaishek's table...
...come from Inventor Johnson himself and from the boss of his barrel shop, an acidulous, gun-goofy Swede named Carl Ekdahl. By their joint ingenuity Johnson, Ekdahl, Ruhl & Co. had by last week piled up 5,300 finished barrels, 11,000 more barrels in process, 10,000 breech bolts, hundreds and thousands of other parts, before a gun was assembled...
Cheyenne Indians, in complete tribal regalia, picketed the U.S. post office at Watonga, Okla. Inside was a mural by Edith Mahier of the University of Oklahoma, depicting their ancestors under the reign of Chief Roman Nose. Explained 71-year-old Chief Red Bird: "Picture not like Roman Nose. Breech clout too short, look like Navajo. Roman Nose's baby look like stumpy pig. No good. It stinks...