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...Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky to crawl out of the wreckage in a pineapple patch five miles from Luke Field...
...critical analysis discloses flaws in plenty. The action occasionally slows to a tortuous crawl in sequences where long pieces of quasi-philosophy or super-sentimentality are inserted. Also on the debit side is a strained and obvious attempt to give the picture social significance. But these faults are not sufficient to weight down an otherwise light and airy fantasy. Roland Young and Billie Burke, whose reputations characterize the film, fit happily into its mood and spirit; while the names of Janet Gaynor and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. look well on the marquee...
...Years Under the Earth makes it clear that speleology is no job for a claustrophobe. "Very few tubes are im-passable," declares Casteret, "if one knows how to crawl (there is an art to it) and dares to keep on, come what may. Thanks to his shape, man can stretch out longer and thinner than any animal of his size...
...pouch the youngsters stay for about 55 days, attached to their mother's body by the swelling of her nipples, too big for their tiny mouths to release. When they have developed to the size of a mouse they crawl about her body, with frequent visits home. Thirty days later, fully developed in everything but size, they leave home for good; but not until three years have passed do they reproduce their teaspoonfilling kind...
...stream of water squirted in through a neglected bolthole and hit him in the back of the neck. By the time they had plugged the hole with a piece of pine, the submarine was resting on the bottom of the river. They cranked it across the Shrewsbury, made it crawl obediently through the mud and, as a demonstration for skeptical townspeople, even made it scoop up old tin cans and clamshells. It was, says Simon Lake, the first submarine that really performed. Rivals have claimed the same thing for their inventions...