Word: pipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrated "Red Ball" truck highway across France, Piper Cubs at low altitude now patrol the roads, radio the nearest salvage depot when they spot a breakdown. Behind the fighting lines, the "cannibalizing" of tanks and guns (piecing together new units from dismantled wrecks) has been put on an assembly-line basis. But even miracles have their limits: there came a point where the supply miracle had been stretched to the snapping point. Organization and improvisation had done their utmost. The Allied armies slowed down, stopped...
...through on a Monday morning, but we must descend at last. At least that's the theory of our very dear pharmacists' male friend (the eye specialists you know). In his rotund manner, thrusting, the creosote gun down our throat he says "You've danced, now pay the piper" and pulls the trigger...
Back down to the Pied Piper, where Maxie Kaminsky, Jimmy Johnson, Willie Smith, et al, still play the best Dixieland in the City and pack the bistro nightly ... Frankie Newton was bending an elbow at the bar and we adjourned to his apartment to admire his paintings ... No kidding, Frankie is doing some fine stuff and the Southern Comfort was fine... Newt has left George's but plays every Tuesday at the Pied Piper...
...Illinois Criminal Investigation Laboratory sent an investigator named Richard T. Piper to Mattoon to get the pink cloth from Mrs. Cordes' porch. The laboratory could find no indications of gas or other chemicals upon it. Piper sat up all night reading chemistry books and announced the next day that the anesthetist was probably using chloropicrin, a heavy, colorless liquid made by chlorinating picric acid...
...aeronautical engineer and a lieut. commander in the British Admiralty as well as an experienced writer (Ordeal, Pied Piper), Author Shute makes his conventional story more than just readable, with exciting scenes of air combat, much pastoral warmth and charm...