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High among the puffy white clouds over Kiel both the pilot and co-pilot of the B-17 Worry Wart were knocked out. Below-zero cold froze the pilot's hands and feet. The co-pilot was dead, a 20-mm. shell through his breast. Ugly flak blossoms unfolded on all sides. In & out among the clouds darted droves of enemy fighters. Worry Wart's chances of getting back to England were next to zero...
From the "Eight Ball II" on an Antwerp sweep, Army Air Forces Captain Clark Gable got his first Fortress-eye look at Europe, manned no guns but "learned a lot." He also nearly froze his hands, having nullified the protection of electrically heated gloves by wearing a leather pair underneath. Captain Gable is the gunnery officer of a new Fortress group expected to start operational flights soon...
...periodic dumping of Government holdings. At the same time labor costs rose 30%. The higher wage levels didn't hold textile workers; they have gone into much better paid war jobs and have been drafted so fast that WMC last month defined them as essential civilians, froze them to their looms. But by that time a good deal of the damage was done...
When paper rationing froze Hollywood's magazine linage last year, and cut the free newspaper publicity customarily given to cinema, moviemakers bought more newspaper linage (up about 10% in 1942) and turned to radio. Some immediate results...
...three of them had homemade snowshoes. They carried a blanket apiece and "minute rations" that must last six days. The first day they made four miles. The second day they crossed the divide, but they were snowblind and had only an ounce of food a day. Their feet froze. By Christmas Eve, they had been tramping nine days, two days without food. They had lost the trail. "To go on they must live, to live they must eat, but there was no food. But there was food." One of them suggested that they draw lots to see who should...