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...strike begins. Flights of carrier planes swoop in from the north: dive bombers circle in the sun and plunge down almost vertically to drop their crumps. Avengers roar in low and you can see strings of slim black bombs drop out of their bellies. They make fat, black mushroom patterns along the length of the target. Then Hell cats flash over, tearing the sky with heavy machine-gun strafing...
...appreciation of the weakness of his foe. He split his forces into small columns (the two which crossed the Yellow River numbered only 5,000 men), sent them streaking across Honan's ripening wheat fields. Once his wedges had pierced the outer defense belts, he sent them into mushroom patterns. Result: encirclement of Chinese front-line troops. The advance went...
...keep up with Had's double talk, things'll be fun. It starts flowing at 1800, at the Harvard Club of Boston, Commonwealth and Massachusetts Avenues (Mass. Ave. Station), and first on the programme are "unlimited cocktails" until 1845. Featured on the dinner will be Mushroom Soup, Roast Beef and Strawberry Sundae, garnished with Midshipman entertainment, some tavern harmony led by "Jake" and a very few remarks from the honored guests. Captain McIntosh, Lieutenant Commanders Hesser and Collins, and Lieutenant Anderson are expected to be an board, and Deans David and Smith, and Mr. Bates of the Harvard faculty have...
Getting off to a paralyzing start did not deter the period of expansion which get under full steam around 1910. Three years later, in 1913, Professor Cunningham told how the University finally fully realized that the little cellar institution was not only a mushroom, but a good...
...Magnitogorsk Scott saw factories rise out of the mud-watched a town of 2,000 mushroom into Russia's largest iron and steel stronghold, with an annual production of close to 3,000,000 tons. "Building Magnitogorsk from the ground up caused more casualties than the Battle of the Marne," he says. The story of that tremendous enterprise and its terrific toll in human lives and effort is in his first book, Beyond the Urals...