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...they are more than a novel convenience; they are a necessity. In darkened Britain, during the early months of blackout, the death rate from falls, collisions and other accidents was almost twice that of well-lit peacetime years. Still high, it would be far higher without the wan yellowish gleam of curbs, guide rails, doorways, signs and even pedestrians' lapels and trouser cuffs touched with luminescent pigments...
...years go past upon his voice, carrying with them the rustle of the buffalo grass, the song of the loggers and the boatmen, and the Civil War's distant thunder; the Vag sees the gleam of the frontiersman's rifle and bridle fall to the ground and become the glint of the first railroad track across America. On either side of the rails the corn and wheat springs up with the houses, and the Indian mounts his pony and rides away forever...
...Street, where Santa Monicans eyed her with wonder. Over and through her swarmed mechanics, checking her once again. Around and through her walked her pilots, headed by the Army Air Corps's crack, cigar-chewing Major Stanley Umstead. For the B19, six years ago no more than a gleam in the eye of far-seeing Air Corpsmen, was ready to fly; within three weeks Stanley Umstead expected to take her upstairs for her first run, after he had finished the ground acquaintance begun two weeks before...
Cloyd Weaver Miller, an Ohio little businessman, is self-appointed gadfly to RFC. Last week stocky, white-haired Mr. Miller, with a crusader's gleam in his glacial blue eyes, laid plans to go to Washington to bring to a pestiferous climax the strangest one-man campaign of harassment ever waged against a New Deal agency...
Leewards to Venezuela. From this eastern outpost the hook swings on south, to the British-owned island of Trinidad off Venezuela's northern coast. Trinidad is an operating base to make an invader's eyes gleam-a bountiful oil and gasoline supply, strategically laid in flank of traffic from South America where he might have a foothold. It would also make an important U. S. outpost, completing the defense set-up of the hook. Its anchorages are deep and wide and its northwest coves would make good seaplane bases. Since it lies well within the U. S. sphere...