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...Benina, near the big base of Bengasi, British fliers swooped low to machine-gun hangar attendants, unloaded their bombs over a fleet of 100 planes drawn up on the field. At Bengasi itself, five Italian ships in the harbor were blasted with incendiaries and explosives. At every Italian air base around the Cyrenaican bulge to Martúba the British kept pounding...
...pavement, stopped traffic dead. A Washington State patrolman used his brakes in a hurry when a trunk fell right in front of him. When he got out to look, another landed right behind, trapped him for fair. At the Kelso (Wash.) municipal airport, the gale lifted a temporary frame hangar off its foundations. Three planes skittered out across the field, wound up as overturned wrecks. Houseboats and small vessels broke from their harbor moorings; many smashed to smithereens against shore...
...went whirling down the coast to batter California. There rain fell in whale-sized tubfuls: San Diego, which normally gets only three inches in the entire last half of the year, got more than that in a single day last week. At Salinas Airport, workmen anchored an iron hangar to four ten-ton ice trucks to keep it from blowing away. At a beach near San Francisco, waves slammed 100 feet beyond high water mark, knocked three houses off their underpinnings. Ten Coastguardsmen who set out to aid a damaged lumber schooner off Fort Bragg soon needed help themselves. They...
...brings them in. They plunk down with a bang into the arresting gear, while the parti-colored uniforms of her goblins appear and disappear from her mahogany-red deck. Compressed air sighs and hisses. Bells ring. Whistles blow as planes taxi forward and are whisked magically below to the hangar deck on high-speed elevators. Occasionally a siren wails like a seagoing banshee as a pilot overshoots and cracks up against the barrier (but seldom hurts himself or crew...
...opening game is with M. I. T. in Hangar Gym next Friday night. The Techmen have another good club and will be doubly tough on their own floor...