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Record: Perfect. However tough the grind, airline pilots love this work. Long known as the cantankerous prima donnas of aviation, pilots formerly raised the hangar roof if a single field light was out or the stewardess forgot the chewing gum. Now they fly over trackless wastes (usually without radio), land on bad fields, sleep in flimsy shanties-and never squawk. And their record grounds everyone: not a single lost plane, not a single accident...
...innovator, a skilled administrator, he is a man tough of hide and mind. He parts his thin ribbons of hair precisely in the center of his head; gave up smoking cigarets, now chews (gum). In his new job, he will have plenty to chew...
General Stilwell chain-smoked cigarets in a long black holder, incessantly chewed gum, exchanged orders and information in his fluent Chinese (the fruit of 13 years' service in China). When Jap bombers broke up his conferences, he calmly took cover and kept on chewing gum. He soon saw that the Japanese blocked the way to Toungoo, that relief of the town was impossible without air support. A Chinese field radio flashed an order to the commander in Toungoo; at an appointed place and hour, he was to lead his men in a break through the Japanese lines. General Stilwell...
...sugar consumption unmasks the subterfuge. Had not Leon Henderson's stamp plan already nullified their small hoardings, it could still be shown that every housewife in the land could stock her pantry, fill her attic and basement, and still not equal the consumption of the soft drink, chewing gum, and whiskey industries. Each of them takes an average of a billion tons of sugar off the market annually. Hoarding is the chief cause of the sugar shortage. But industrial hoarders, not housewives, are the culprits...
Powerful industrial sugar consumers with influence in Washington have brought the nation to the verge of sugar rationing. The hoards of the soft drink, chewing gum, and commercial whiskey industries should be poured on the market before this happens. In sugar rationing, as in automobile production, rubber, and aluminum the business as usual crowd is hard at work losing...