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...oven-hot flatlands of southwest Texas last week traveled some 90 U.S. professional men to listen to learned lectures, to watch exhibitions of technique, to talk shop. They looked like any other group of scientists or educators, except that they wore khaki. In a sense they were educators: The deans and professors of the science of aerial warfare. Their profession: killing Japs and Nazis on the wing. Their special field: the high and delicate art of fixed gunnery, practiced in fighter planes while moving several hundred miles an hour...
Seagrave often found it expedient to give his nurses unusual responsibility: they gave hypodermics, anesthesia, made diagnoses, delivered babies, drove ambu lances, took full charge of small, outlying hospitals, and in a pinch oven did surgery (under his eye). With the aid of these girls and the local masons, the doctor built a 100-bed hospital out of local cobblestone for $20,000. He followed it with a nurses' home and, finally, a cottage for himself-just in time for the Japs to take over...
...feel perfectly humming and I haven't had anything. Not a drop. So I'm going right out to do all the other things I've always wanted to do, and God knows when I'll be back. The ice cream is in the oven...
...Whiteside now has the world's most ambiguous job. If the House shares the Senate's conviction that the home front will never get an adequate hearing within WPB, Mr. Whiteside's goose is cooked, and Mr. Nelson's is on the way to the oven...
...clue came from Belém, an oven-hot seaport on Brazil's hump. There, one day recently, the shanty-lined streets that lead to Belém's airport were abustle with activity. U.S. jeeps and command cars crowded around the field. The Brazilian police departed; Army guards took their place. Presently, from the North sky, a great transport streaked down. It remained on the field several hours refueling, then took off toward the sea. Usually passengers scurry to the airport building to escape the heat, to sip cafezinho (half black coffee, half Brazilian sugar...