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...feels too much like the inside of a man o' war to put a soldier at his ease. So many sailors got their experience there that even the instructors talk like old tars. We have been told to line up against the bulkhead, go up to the next deck, and see the chief. Yes, they even call them "heads" there...
...carpentry around home; Plumber Marguerete Julien; Plumber Laura Derrickson, who once attended the Fort Wayne Bible Institute, now zealously preaches the doctrine of not throwing anything in the "heads"-because if one gets stopped up "we'll have to take out that whole doggone bulkhead...
...picture concerning his brother, Jules, a member of the Naval Air Force who recently received the Distinguished Flying Cross...the tolerant, squinty smile on the face of the grim Ben. Stephens when he lost a shoo in radio engineering and called his stockinged foot while leaning on the aft bulkhead of Langdell (he couldn't double talk his way out of that one)...the spectacle of the artistic Bernie lange trying to teach his roommates the involved wigglings of the rhumba...the worried expression on A. J. Gregory's face as he stood anchored in formation while a squadron...
...13th day out they knew they were in for trouble. High above, two enemy planes had circled time & again. That night, when the torpedo struck, the noise was like the slamming of a bulkhead door. The big ship rolled slowly over on her side, then plunged...
Ducks, geese, gulls, eagles, buzzards and other birds are a hazard to aviation. A bird once smashed through a plane windshield, burst the metal bulkhead behind the pilot, hurtled the length of the cabin, broke into the baggage compartment in the tail. A 15-lb. turkey easily breaks conventional safety glass even at speeds under 100 m.p.h. Westinghouse shoots its chickens and turkeys at velocities up to 400 m.p.h. Results of the test: recommendations for thicker windshields than the usual safety glass. One type of panel developed has tempered glass on the outside, an air space, then two panes...