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...first test flight at Saunders-Roe's plant at Cowes, the Hovercraft rose 15 in. above the concrete runway. Test Pilot Peter Lamb maneuvered it easily, using a standard aircraft control stick. To dramatize the low friction of its air cushion, Inventor Christopher Cockrell pushed the four-ton craft around the apron by hand. Later the Hovercraft was towed out into the Solent for its first water trial. It rose in a cloud of spray and skimmed easily above the water among yachts and harbor traffic...
Burma is full of elephants that never forget. Back in the '20s and '30s, when J. H. ("Elephant Bill") Williams was working as elephant manager for the Bombay Burma Trading Corp., he traveled from camp to camp, inspecting the jumbos whose job was pushing & pulling four-ton teak logs down from the hills...
...props, discard, replace, assemble, "hang" and light. "I like to brood," sighs Mielziner, "and there's no time for brooding"-only 100-hour work weeks in which "one minute you're creating magic, the next minute you find yourself serving as a practical plumber or making a four-ton set disappear...
Catch. In Sheffield, Ohio, a marine went fishing, caught a live pig. In the Mississippi, near New Orleans, the S.S. Amherst Victory weighed anchor, hauled up a four-ton, two-horned manta a four-ton, two-horned manta (devil fish...
Toward the front over muddy roads and fields went thousands of tanks, armored cars, trucks and guns. Heavily gunned German blockhouses, pillboxes and fortified ravines were reduced by the famed, straight-shooting Russian artillery. Overhead U.S. and British-made bombers dropping three-and four-ton bombs cooperated with Soviet Stormoviks in attacks on enemy tank and troop concentrations and on German nerve centers at Orel and Bryansk. In a vain attempt to stem the tide, the Luftwaffe flew as many as 1,500 sorties in a single day, but the sky was full of Russian planes. The Germans could...