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They went over at treetop level, doing close to 500 m.p.h., with their guns blazing. As they pulled up at the end of the field a burst of ground flak caught the Major's plane. Red flames began to lick out behind as he fought his way back up to altitude. Then Beckham's Florida drawl crackled through the interplane radio...
...Government demanding particulars, Messrs. Baruch & Hancock took a cold look at policy problems in general-and drew obvious conclusions. The great service that the report performed for the nation was that it dumped a lot of particular problems into one package and suggested some common-sense ways to lick them before they could lick the nation...
...well within the stream of Graeco-Roman culture. It happened also in Germany. Mr. Flynn's plain point is that fascism can come to any Western capitalist nation, and he thinks that it is coming to the U.S. if someone doesn't figure out a way to lick old devil budget...
...that the Allies have developed a radically new type of fighter aircraft which flies without a propeller. It is driven entirely by jet propulsion. Work on the design was started in 1933 by ace British designer Frank Whittle, now an R.A.F. group captain. It took him four years to lick the engine problem, four more before a plane actually flew...
...answer to the Soviet Government's anti-religious prayers. It was related to a heavy blow that had befallen the Government earlier, the full seriousness of which had not been realized at the time: acting apparently on the principle that if you can't lick 'em, join 'em, the Metropolitan Sergei of Moscow had joined the Bolsheviks. Not that he ceased to be a Christian or acquired a party-book (the Communist Party does not admit Christians to membership). What Sergei did was to take literally the Soviet Government's decree that the business...