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...flown in over the "Hump" route from India. Planes bringing in gas use several times the amount of their payload, just to get it there; the B-29s have proved to be their own most efficient tank cars. How much they can haul, and how often they can crank up new raids, now rates a spot well up on the crowded list of things the Japs must worry about...
There was an emergency crank for just such a situation. It had been cut off neatly by a 20-mm. shell...
...memoirs, if he ever writes them, would probably lack the acid, gossipy trivia that make such memoirs bestsellers. To this native of Hopkinsville, Ky. the world contains two kinds of men: gentlemen and others. In his rougher dealings with possible assassins (the legend is that Starling can "sense" a crank in a crowd), gentlemanly Colonel Ed has been known to address a suspicious character as "pahdner." Ambassadors, foreign potentates, Supreme Court justices, Congressmen, newsmen and other citizens are "suh." Through five Administrations, suh, there have been gentlemen in the White House...
...game that in the past year has enticed over 30,000 visitors to the Cleveland Health Museum. Beside each question is a little flapdoor; behind it, visitors find the answer (answer to these three questions: No).* The museum is full of other tricky gadgets: e.g., by turning a crank, a visitor gets a model demonstration of the right and wrong ways to brush teeth; by dialing his age, he learns how much longer (actuarially, but not actually) he may expect to live...
...call for help. A compact (35 lb.), waterproof, unsinkable affair, the transmitter has a tiny antenna which is raised into the air by a pair of balloons in a calm or a box kite when there is a wind. To signal with it, the operator simply turns a crank, which both generates power for the transmitter and automatically grinds out the SOS message...