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Riding in jeeps, touring in tanks and taking the bumps of basic training have caused such an increase in pilonidal-cyst disorders that some doctors call them jeep disease. Cause: an infection of a congenital cyst at the base of a man's spine. Chief symptom: it hurts to sit down...
Many a pilonidal cyst is never discovered. Discovery usually results from an infection, or an irritation like a jeep ride or a heavy fall (one doctor calls his lady pilonidal patients "basketball girls...
Said a two-star general in MacArthur's theater: "In this war there are two items of army equipment which should be memorialized in marble-the tractor and the jeep." Said the Army Engineers' Chief, Major General Eugene Reybold: "Victory seems to favor the side with the greater ability to move dirt...
...politely declined to be drawn into the argument. It refused to designate any company as "biggest," emphasized that comparisons, either in weight or number, are unfair. Reason: a complicated Flying Fortress is more difficult to build than a heavier transport, counts no more, numerically, than a "flying jeep." No figures could take into consideration many an other factor, such as design changes, new models, experimentation. But of one thing WPB was proudly certain: the high-geared U.S. aircraft industry will build more than 100,000 planes this year, compared...
Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell wanted to see what, if anything, had gone wrong with his thesis that well fed and armed Chinese can fight as valiantly and skillfully as any other troops. He left his headquarters, flew to a forward base, then by jeep and afoot went back into the familiar Burma jungles. He doffed his three stars at a forward command post, donned dirty puttees and stained khaki, wormed up to forward observation posts to watch his U.S.-trained-and-equipped Chinese troops...