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...other day I saw one exhausted L-5 pilot, after eleven straight hours over enemy territory, stagger to his tent and flop on a cot. A moment later his commanding officer shook him and said: "We've got a kid over here shot through the throat. We've got to get him to Taegu. Can you keep awake?" The pilot struggled to his feet and muttered: "Litter case? I'm awake." He walked over to his plane and looked in at an ivory-faced boy with a tube dangling from his throat. The pilot stepped...
...Fiasco. Not till the war came did they try their hand at mass production. Near Norfolk, Va. they laid long, roadlike strips of concrete for foundations, then erected walls and roofs over them to form 1,600 squat houses that were little more than shacks. The development was a flop and about 230 of the units are now empty. More successful were 757 houses the Levitts built in Norfolk for the Navy. This success convinced them that low-priced houses could be profitably mass-produced. But the idea was temporarily shelved in 1943, when Bill Levitt joined the Seabees...
Whitsuntide came & went, and the U.S. and its Allies this week were still in Berlin. The huge Communist youth demonstration went off in a driving rain, a sodden flop. After the captains and the kids departed, Berlin's otherwise neat and well-kept ruins were littered with a mass of Communist leaflets; otherwise nothing much had changed. There could be no doubt that the Reds had trapped themselves into a severe propaganda defeat...
...Flop Over. But 20 miles down from Albany the river roughened and Augie's gamble began to pay off. By Poughkeepsie, the halfway mark, his boat was bouncing clean out of the water every 20 seconds or so ("I could hear that screw screaming"). His forward gas tank broke loose, and he had to slow down for 20 minutes while he hand-pumped gas into his after tank. But he kept going while the others were having troubles too ("I saw one boat spin right up on its tail and flop over...
...Composer Benjamin Britten has had spectacular success in grand opera houses with his bigger and more traditional opera Peter Grimes, and his chamber operas Albert Herring and Let's Make an Opera are successful in Britain and Europe. His lone Broadway production, The Rape of Lucretia, was a flop...