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...first goal," said Phalanx Chief James Banahan, "is to blow up the Communist headquarters right around the corner. We'll be making bombs soon...
...McWilliams, and a salesman for Nazi agent George Sylvester Viereck's Flanders' Hall Publishing Company. He was made a captain (Grand Central District) in the underground Army of Christ, alias the Iron Guard, alias the Midtown Sporting Club ("interested in shooting rabbits, see?"), alias the American Phalanx (PAX for short "In Latin it means peace...
...blazing sun popped over the rim of the cloud world. When the coastal rally point was reached, the Forts were arranged in an irregular flying box formation, not unlike the classic battle phalanx. The highest planes were cascading mile-long vapor trails. Over the Channel, the clouds disappeared. Not a boat rippled the Channel's surface. Far out on either side, Spitfires raced along, occasionally tipping their wings to warn the eager fortress gunners not to fire on them...
...postwar U.S. air policy is part of any postwar peace, must square with what Britain and the other United Nations do, with what Congress decides. Pan Am's diplomatic Trippe is an old expert with Congress. But never has Juan Trippe been confronted by such a solid phalanx of airlines, such a potent battler as the U.S. Army. Pan Am is in for the knockdown, drag-out battle of its tumultuous career...
...subsidies on domestic agricultural products. Not even the wildest-eyed proponent of subsidies had thought of using Lend-Lease funds for such a purpose, but the Congress took no chances: the farm bloc, in cahoots with both big & little business for once, is lined up in a solid phalanx against subsidies. The Administration and Labor are solidly for them. This week Franklin Roosevelt indicated he wanted $1½ to $2 billions in subsidies for price rollbacks...