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...cash per envelope, this meant more pay, not less. Engineers would get $13.44 a day v. $11.57 under Brotherhood rules, firemen $10.41 v. $9.46, etc. But because idle "standby" workers would be eliminated, it meant fewer jobs. McNear ran his road with 55 crewmen a day at the very time the Brotherhoods were insisting it took...
...port wing. "There is an appalling tendency," he remarks, "to sit and watch this happen without taking any action, as though mesmerized by a snake." That time he got away, to crash-land safely "in the back garden of a Brigade cocktail party." When, a few days later, crewmen of the Margate lifeboat dragged Hillary, comatose, out of the North Sea, they rushed him ashore to have his burnt flesh caked with protective tannic acid, his eyes with a coating of gentian violet...
...single bomber delivered to Britain by air has been shot down by German action, even though the planes used to fly unarmed and unarmored. But last week a plane carrying eleven Atlantic Ferry Command pilots and eleven crewmen back to America for another batch of deliveries crashed, presumably of engine failure, on a lonely hillside in Britain. Four days later another crashed on the takeoff, and twelve more Ferry Command pilots and nine more crewmen were killed...
Aboard the O-9 were Lieut. Howard J. Abbott, a line officer who had four years of submarine experience; Ensign Marks P. Wangsness, a 27-year-old reservist; and 31 crewmen, some of whom were youngsters just recruited. Seaman Charles L. Eagleton, 24, after a test dive in shallow water, had recently written his father: "Everything went wrong, but we've got it under control now." Seaman Francis Golden had told his father that the O-9 had sprung 19 leaks, that "water poured into her right away" on her first runs. Seaman Nathan Gersen had told his family...
Earlier in the afternoon the third Varsity heavy crews of Harvard and Yale will meet in combat for the Steward's Cup. The first Freshmen heavies and the Eliot House first crew are also entered in this race, which should fall easily to the Yardling crewmen...