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With the help of some coolies, Woods dragged the hurt plane off the field and three miles down a road to hide it in a clump of bamboo. He feared the Japanese would return. They did. For three days, flights totaling 57 Japanese bombers scoured the countryside around Suifu, but the bamboo camouflage fooled them...
Before the sergeant's 'chute had billowed into a white cloud just below and behind the plane's tail, the second man had jumped. Within ten seconds, the cabin was empty. The 'chutes drifted compactly together, behind the clump from the other plane, scudding swiftly downwind. The crews aboard the planes circling overhead saw the first jumpers hit ground, roll, vanish among their flattening parachutes. A flight sergeant yelled: "Hell, they're in the trees!" Some of the 'chutists had indeed gone into the trees; one landed in a creek. Damage: a couple...
...reaction to finding Herr Hitler on the cover of your outstanding magazine was similar to that pronounced feeling of distaste experienced once last summer when I stooped to admire a clump of lovely wild flowers-and gazed at the coiled mass of a rattler...
...west vista, overlooking the giant dam, a little clump of 10,000 people stood to hear Washington's balding young Governor Arthur Langlie declare that the Grand Coulee was now in service. Down in the concrete labyrinths of the powerhouse, below the main generator pits, bigwigs gathered on Level 991† around microphones; there stolid Indian bucks and squaws from Colville Reservation watched Chief Jim James pay tribute to the men who had drowned the hunting ground of his ancestors in a new American dream...
...Canada. When it grows in soil with a gold content, it hungrily absorbs the metal. Last week Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg of Toronto told the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers that for some time Canadian prospectors had been locating gold by burning a clump of horsetail, analyzing the ashes...