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...enemy jet had been shot down in the shallow water of the Yellow Sea, a few miles off Korea's west coast. British carrier planes fixed and photographed the position of the ditched fighter and a U.S. helicopter dropped a marking buoy. A British 1,600-ton frigate, a South Korean motor launch and a U.S. Navy shallow-draft landing craft equipped with a crane moved in through treacherous sand bars to retrieve the prize, while a cruiser and carrier planes stood by to ward off enemy interference. Darkness and high tide interrupted the operation and the allied craft...
...next morning a tug spotted the Truculent's emergency marker buoy. The web-booted, goggled divers, known in the service as "frogmen," battled all morning to reach the hull of the sub. At 12:25 p.m., the frogmen sent up a chilling message: "No signals can be heard...
Potatoes & Toad. Nonetheless, the two sisters have always been fast friends. Margaret's bubbling imagination and great self-assurance have been a buoy for Elizabeth's shy conscientiousness; dutiful Elizabeth has been a steady rock for mercurial Margaret. When Elizabeth at eleven became a Girl Guide, she insisted that Margaret be enlisted too. The younger sister was signed up as a Brownie, Leprechaun division...
...skipper set out. for Dunkirk with just "a series of courses penciled on the back of an envelope" and no notion of the holocaust that awaited him (personnel-ship Scotia passed a returning destroyer in mid-Channel, received from her merely the deadpan warning: "Windy off No. 6 buoy"). Tug Sun XI found herself ferrying to & fro for seven days, "like a sardine tin full up everywhere." Skipper Lightoller packed troops into his yacht Sundowner until, in his own expressive words, "I could feel her getting distinctly tender, so took no more...
...Profits which are so high that they cannot be absorbed by investment, remain unspent and reduce consumer purchasing power," he explained. Keyser-ling also noted that the spending of war time savings, reconversion investments, and European aid buoy up the economy temporarily, but warned that a severe depression was inevitable unless income distribution is improved...