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...Heirs of Colin Kelly. It was upon the reverent Stratemeyer and his Far East Air Forces that MacArthur placed the first heavy burden of U.S. operations in Korea. FEAF's 400-odd fighters, 60-odd bombers and one troop carrier group were scattered halfway across the Pacific. From bases in southern Japan, Stratemeyer sent out jet F80 Shooting Stars and F82 Twin Mustangs to strafe North Korean trucks, locomotives and armor. From Guam he called up B-29 Superfortresses to pound Seoul's Kimpo airfield...
...race got underway, tempers flared. Motorcycle cops patrolled the course, broke up fist fights among rivals who crashed into each other. Nineteen drivers suffered slight injuries. Two youngsters craftily painted the same number on two cars, with the intention of letting one take over from the other at the halfway mark. Their strategy miscarried when the second car got to the finish line before the first even started. Several boys whose cars had smashed apart crossed the finish line on foot, running with car wheels and bodies tucked under their arms. To the chagrin of the boys, a girl...
...passed the $5,000,000 mark in this year's drive to match John D. Rockefeller's conditional gift of that amount. President Conant announced yesterday the success of the most intensive fund-raising effort in recent Harvard history. Conant added that the Business School has now passed the halfway point in its post-war campaign...
Already CCC had stored up enough wheat and corn (516,242,531 bushels) to fill a freight train stretching 11,679 miles -almost halfway around the world at the equator, enough cotton (3,600,000 bales) to loom 90 million bedsheets. In storage it had all the dried eggs (88 million lbs.) that U.S. bakers would need for the next eight years, enough butter (99 million lbs.) for the baking of 495 million cakes, and enough powdered milk (316 million lbs.) to irrigate the Wheaties of all New York City's schoolchildren for several years to come. There were...
...years later in Newark, N.J., when she hired a cast to support her in her famous role of Tosca, critics sadly pronounced the same sorrowful judgment. But last week in Vienna, 62-year-old Maria Jeritza, still blonde, blooming and beauteous, was getting yesses that could be heard halfway to the Wiener Wald...