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Merrymaking an Old Custom...
Tail-Up and Level. The wingspread is 141 ft. 2 in., the fuselage length 98 ft., and the single tail fin (which has a strong family resemblance to the B-17's familiar tail fin) is 27 ft. high. The Superfortress departs' from previous Fortress custom in having tricycle landing gear -three sets of twin wheels-so that its fuselage, like that of the tricycle-geared Liberator, is tail-up and level on the ground...
...wife and a daughter old enough to drive a truck operate a single traveling combine. But other migratory crews are big enough to include a fleet of truckers, factory-trained combine repairmen and rolling cookshacks. Corps of "semi-pro" harvest ers move from field to field "custom combining" the wheat at $3 & up an acre, operating fleets of new, self-propelled combines, each able to cut 50 acres of grain a day. Their work plans are as precise as army logistics; their bookings and daily routings are scheduled like traveling theater companies...
...jacks or three treys, and his reformist zeal for keeping all the other players honest, can cost him dear when such scientific pokerists as Ira Eaker are present. Says Mrs. Spaatz, philosophically: "That's where the flying pay goes. It's an old Air Force custom. They all have that feeling: 'What the hell, let's take a chance...
Following tribal custom the men do not cut their hair. But men & women are equally beardless; both sexes wear indeterminate gowns. All of them are intensely modest. When Miss Duby and a doctor in her party gave them medical injections, to kill the parasitic flies which often lodge in their skins, they acted as though they were being seduced...