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...guns beside them. At one base Curt LeMay strode by a master sergeant who had laid aside his piece to dive into his lunch bag. The C.G. rounded up all the maintenance men for one of his longer speeches. "This afternoon," said he, "I found one man guarding a hangar with a ham sandwich. There will be no more of that...
...city that Hitler was to make the "thousand-year capital" of the Reich. To house Thorak's enormous work in preparation, some of it six stories high and weighing 1,000 tons, the Führer built him a studio as high and wide as a Zeppelin hangar. When the job proved to be insecure, Sculptor Thorak retired to semiobscurity in Bavaria...
...made it a one-man airline, and he made it pay. Captain Eddie-as he is known around the Eastern system-flew 200,000 miles during his first year as president. He not only poked his nose into every airplane, every ticket office, every hangar and every repair shop, but, in time, left an embodiment of himself in all of them through a series of posters. These bear a picture of him, the words "Captain Eddie Says:"-and various Rickenbacker-ish homilies on the value of thrift, safety and patriotism. Some of his employees refer to the poster picture...
...improvised theater in an old army hangar at Willow Run, Kaiser-Frazer dealers gathered to see their company's new models. The dealers were gloomy: their share of U.S. auto sales had slumped from an early postwar 5½% to 1%; they knew that K-F had staked its entire future on the new models, pledging all its assets for the $44 million RFC loan which made the new line possible...
...Jupiter Inlet Light registered 162 before it was blown away) shattered plate glass, ripped roofs off buildings, filled city streets with flying debris. The blast battered coconuts from palm trees and bowled them about beaches and pavements. Power lines snapped with blinding blue flashes. A concrete and metal hangar at West Palm Beach was mashed and 40 airplanes wrecked...