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Last week, TACA's square-jawed President Lowell Yerex gave bite for bite, came up with a new permit to operate in Colombia. TACA de Colombia will be a TACA affiliate, owned 45% by the parent company and 55% by Colombians. Operating in the pack-mule fashion that made it in 1942 the world's No. 1 freight flyer, the Yerex airline will pit two Douglas DC-2½s (DC-2s with DC-3 wings, double doors and reinforced bottoms) and a twin-engine Beechcraft against Pan Am's deluxe equipment. If it needs more money...
Butters tried chasing the beasts on foot with a mule whip-a process complicated by the necessity of hugging trees to keep his quarry from killing him. Finally, with the help of four other men and a hard-won technique, he drove 32 young buffalo into a corral...
...three years the Administration had juggled the nation's manpower, substituting makeshifts for direct action. Reflecting on the legal machinery available, Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes philosophized: "When you can't ride a horse, ride a mule; if you can't ride a mule, ride a cow." But at week's end the Administration sounded like a man who hoped to ride a horse...
...jovial Major General Patrick Jay Hurley, who has been coal miner, cowboy, mule skinner, lawyer to the Choctaws, buck private and presidential envoy extraordinary, began his newest job: U.S. Ambassador to China. His letters of credence had not arrived from Washington, but Chungking waved aside such formalities. In the American Embassy Pat Hurley held his first press conference, told reporters how he had taken part in parleys between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Chinese Communists. It was a strangely unself-conscious tale...
...epitaph on a grave in Italy, U.S. doughboys read this definitive description of the career of Peggy, a British Army mule...