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...this time I was conscious, though becoming drowsy as a result of the ether cleansing. The instant the shock button was pressed I lost consciousness. The next thing I knew was that I was lying in a cubicle with my escort sitting beside me. . . . For some minutes I could not remember where I was or that I had had the treatment. Gradually memory and mental clarity returned...
...nations. But it marks less than a 100% increase over the production of January 1942 (3,000). It is only 500 more than U.S. factories delivered in January, 1943, only eleven more than the deliveries of December 1942. Somehow, in the rush for the production of other essentials (like escort vessels), and probably also as a result of the confusion in WPB, U.S. aircraft production had bogged down...
...spreading far and wide. Almost no evening sees the dining room without its male visitor. Matters have gone so far that one of our number has expressed the sentiment of many of us: "It's getting so that it's positively embarrassing to come to dinner without an escort." This is quite a Navy...
...lady got served all right, and worked her way through a meal, sitting with her escort and another couple. Along about the salad, there was a shriek of recognition from one of Eliot's more colorful waitresses. "It's a man,' she lisped, and then it was known...
...well the Corsair had performed, the Navy did not say. In the Shortlands, Corsairs went out with Lockheed Lightnings to escort bombers over one of the most heavily protected Jap spots in the south Pacific. The raiders got plenty of knocking about, knocked down eleven Jap planes, left eight of their own behind when they went home...