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...sugar rationing had been clamped over the U.S. sweet tooth with hardly a twitch from the nerve. But now OPA's drill burred deep into the rawest nerve of the U.S. citizen. Getting to work and home again was a tough problem; getting shopping done and business trips made was suddenly a matter of elaborate planning...
...Every Hedgerow. Not likely to be confused with the Grenadier Guards, on their regular Sunday drill the Home Guards nevertheless looked like able fighting men. A two-year scrounge for armament had equipped them all with firearms, even if some were ancient fowling pieces. Most of them had uniforms and steel helmets; in the most dangerous invasion zones they had Bofors guns, machine guns, light mobile Smith guns and a thing called the Blacker Bombard, which lobs 14-or 20-pound high explosive shells at moving targets (the Home Guard practiced with old baby carriages) with startling accuracy...
...flying is no picnic. Members train hard. Of 230 curricular hours, 80 go into military discipline and drill, 150 into meteorology, navigation, crash procedure, flight missions. Men on active duty get only plane-operation expenses and sustenance, little or no compensation if they damage their ships. But they are stubborn; they want to fly and they...
First, the bad weather, then the several postponements, and finally yesterday's Mil Sci drill made the meet a very haphazard affair. Drawing a picture of the team's future was well-nigh hopeless...
...business in the '90s. In no time at all he made a killing in West Virginia oil, discovered the then huge Crawford Field in Illinois, lost most of his cash in Oklahoma mud. Then he whipped off again, struck the fabulous Caddo pool in Louisiana, moved on to drill in Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, Europe. Most spectacular was his discovery of the great Texas Yates pool, only 16 years ago. Although he owns about one-third of the $13,000,000 Plymouth Oil Co., has a large interest in tens of other companies, he always stayed an independent, was rarely...