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Many of the attacking units, like the one that hit the U.S. embassy, were avowedly suicidal; few of them, even when they did seize towns or installations, managed to hold them for long. Some were promised reinforcements within 48 hours???and never got them?or were given food and ammunition for only five days of foray. Such recklessness of life deprived the Communists of some of their best men, since in many cases the attackers were highly trained demolition experts or battlewise guerrillas...
...work relief would be permanent. Fifty million dollars?roughly, enough to endow two Duke Universities; or to pay the ordinary expenses of the U. S. Government in 1850 with enough left over to acquire Alaska & Hawaii; or to build another Normandie; or to finance the World War for five hours???were set aside for NYA's first year. Said President Roosevelt: "The yield on this investment should be high...
...tomorrow we attack this world's record of $44,000. We hope to sell $50,000. . . . It's really absurd to expect we can accomplish this task. It means selling 250 sets an hour for eight hours???four sets every minute?one set every 14 seconds. But, in spite of its absurdity, we're going to try. For that record is held in Los Angeles and what Los Angeles can do San Francisco can do better. At least that's the way our college boys and our football teams figure. They've done...
...filed last July after an unimpressive test flight of the R-IOI. Lt.-Col. Richmond found the hydrogen bags fouled against nuts and bolts at hundreds of points; that padding was ineffective; that the loss of lifting power was about one ton per square inch of hole in twelve hours???"an alarming condition. . . . Until this matter is taken in hand, we cannot recommend any extension of the flying permit...
...piece of driftwood, brought up within a stone's throw of the Battery seawall. The four men, in their five-year-old plane (which had already served the late Roald Amundsen in the Arctic and Capt. Frank Courtney in the Atlantic) had flown 4,670 mi. in 47 flying hours???nine days elapsed time...