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...heavy underbelly. "Frost," he said. He called for a crew of men with long-handled mops to swash off the wings with antifreeze. "With this load," said MacWilliams, "we need every bit of lift we can get." He climbed into the plane, checked the guy ropes holding the huge burlap rice sacks, moved on to the cockpit and, with the help of his Chinese copilot, got his engines sputtering, then roaring. The plane took...
...they should discover an earring or a bracelet hidden in a seam of clothing they not only will take it but also angrily shoot the owner. They snatch all clothing but what is threadbare. Some refugees save their best garments or other belongings by bundling them deep within a burlap bag full of dirty rags, including urine-soaked baby clothes. The foul smell repels the bandits...
Battle Pitch. What happened at last week's debarkations depended on what paper you read, and what country you lived in. From behind the burlap screens on the cages, American reporters saw "pitched, bloody battles." Over vivid A.P. and U.P. dispatches, many a U.S. paper used such headlines as TROOPS WIELD CLUBS TO EMPTY SHIP. From behind the same screens, British reporters saw British troops using restraint, helping old women and children down the gangplanks and generally behaving like gentlemen. A typical British headline (in the London Daily Telegraph-): JEWS USE BOTTLES & CLUBS ON TROOPS. The Evening News admitted...
Danger & Nerves. Hopp & Linder made a substrata survey of fields where there was no protective covering, discovered that all earthworm life was snuffed out in a single freezing spell. But in a burlap-covered acre, 995,000 worms survived; 1,610,000 slithered to safety beneath a protective acre of hay. The conservationists recommend a covering of chopped cornstalks or manure, or a quick-growing catch crop, to blanket the worms and tide them through the winter...
...Berlin-Zehlendorf coal yards) swung sharply around a corner and six briquettes fell at Klaus's feet. He hastily tucked away his precious find, glowing with the thought of hot soup and a heated room that night. Next morning he was back at the same corner with a burlap bag. For the rest of the winter, he gathered coal and sold it to his shivering fellow Germans...