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This week in Manhattan, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air John F. Floberg explained how aeronautical engineers have dug into the back drawer files and dusted off some old ideas, to start a new trend in naval aircraft. Today's high speeds, said the Secretary, mean that planes must be stronger than ever to stand the strain. The size and weight of a seaplane hull is hardly more of a drawback than the bulky landing gear of a big bomber. Jet engines have cut down the need to raise old-fashioned seaplane propellers high out of the spray...
...fraternity, got himself properly chopped about the chin in a duel, and thoroughly initiated into the bedrooms of the local frauleins. At 20, after a series of undergraduate bull sessions about free will and Zionism, he lit out for Palestine to be a "hewer of wood and a drawer of water...
...because he's just out of jail." When the President asked why he had been in jail, the woman began to cry. Perón said: "After all, what can a man out of work and with five children be but a thief?" Reaching into a drawer, he pulled out a fistful of banknotes. He gave the woman 2,000 pesos ($141), plus 500 pesos for each child and a 350-peso check to pay the rent, and promised to find jobs for both her and her husband...
...sales. But none of the artists was optimistic about the future of German art itself. Said one old impressionist: "Right after the war we breathed a great sigh of relief . . . We all said to ourselves that there would surely be something revolutionary hidden away in somebody's desk drawer . . . Then we realized there was nothing...
...Certainly," the doc said, reaching for a drawer full of state income-tax forms...