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They opened with blows which had become familiar even to the civilians of the world. The airmen executed "rolling attacks" on Russian concentrations, matériel dumps, communications. Other bombers Blitzed cities (see map, p. 24). The tricks and the gadgets were all used: fog screens, pontoons, tanks, parachutes, flares, flamethrowers, motorcycles, tommy guns. Pioneers exploded casemates with experienced precision. Engineers built bridges where they were needed. Infantry advanced fluidly...
...extension of the girls' compulsory education. Drafted girls between the ages of 18 and 24 would be placed on the same footing as men, given the same subsistence, same wages. They would learn switchboard operation, nurses' aid, hospital work, buying and preparation of food, automobile driving, map reading, sewing, budgeting, as well as such mechanical skills as they wanted to learn. Most girls would put in their year at home, would leave home only if they wanted some kind of training which they could not get home (and if their parents were willing to let them go away...
...Beard felt like that for the next 80 years. He became a civil engineer, surveyor, map worker. Then he sold one of his fish drawings for $25. (Said Dan dreamily: ". . . Darned if I'd work any more.") He became a famed illustrator, a Manhattan clubman and after-dinner speaker. But he always seemed a little out of place with such sophisticated, mauve-decade colleagues as Charles Dana Gibson. He illustrated A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court for Mark Twain...
...Henry's campaign was divided into four main drives (see map): from the south, for Beirut and for Damascus; from the east, for Palmyra and for Aleppo (and Latakia). These objectives were to be taken if possible, said the British, "with a view to obviating needless strife and bloodshed...
...deserted his profitable crop-dusting business (done with Huff-Daland Dusters and other hedgehoppers) to ferry passengers between Dallas and Birmingham. For 16 months it looked like a good switch: passengers were more lucrative than insecticides, and safer. But in October 1930, postal officials pushed him off the airline map, gave a fat mail contract to rival American Airlines. Disgusted, Woolman sold his passenger equipment to American, went back to dusting...