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...casualties there may not be time to lower boats, or even to rig cargo nets. But survivors should jump only as a last resort: a man may be knocked out by a high leap, or hit an obstruction. Best emergency exit: a fire hose, because it offers a surer grip than a rope. Hose or rope should be descended slowly. Wait until the feet are in the water before letting go: distance is easy to misjudge under stress. Never go over the lee side: ships drift downwind faster than a man can swim; loose gear floats close to the ship...
...secret is General Arnold's dislike of Pan Am's peacetime monopoly. When ATC was set up, he gave domestic U.S. airlines (with little international experience) the lion's share. Thus General Arnold has already built up the weapon to smash Pan Am's grip on world routes...
...Washington, smooth-working Marvin Jones went through his first week as Food Administrator without saying a public word, quietly tried to get a grip on himself and the tangled food problem...
China's Balance Sheet. With characteristic courage, China has surmounted the past year's difficulties: two terrible famines that swept Honan and Kwangtung, a price level now 87 times the pre-war level, the throttling grip of the blockade, the hunger of vast armies for medicines and munitions, the creeping paralysis of transport. The only major Japanese military drive this year-the campaign in western Hupeh-has been smashed. The Chinese Air Force has taken the air for the first time in several years, shot down enemy planes, cooperated with the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force...
...palm swift glues the nest with saliva to the side of a palm frond; then glues the eggs to the nest. To hatch the eggs, the parent birds (taking turns) grip the back of the nest with their feet, nestle themselves against the eggs. When the young hatch, their parents help them to hold their perilous perch until they are ready...