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...heavy glasses on his nose and rose to the attack. "It is quite clear that the Government have no plans of their own," he snorted. "Is this business or politics? This statement wears the aspect of a . . . thoroughly disreputable performance. . . . This whole affair is nothing but a political ramp!"* When harassed Prim& Minister Attlee refused to promise full debate before nationalization steps were taken, a Tory backbencher flung an excited "Hitler !" across the House at him. In one hour of hectic debate, Winston Churchill was on his feet 25 times, plainly relishing every minute of it. He had a good...
...tall man with a weathered, homely face, in which there was the visible touch of greatness, stepped briskly down the ramp of the plane from China. Three months, almost to the hour, after he had left for Chungking, U.S. Special Envoy George Catlett Marshall was back in Washington. He had time for a broad, boyish grin and two kisses for his waiting wife, quick handshakes for a cluster of welcoming dignitaries. Then he hurried away, in a long black Packard, to report to the White House on the most significant mission undertaken by a U.S. citizen since...
...stage, will not be ready for delivery until 1947. It will be a short-haul, 40-passenger plane in the 300-mile-an-hour class. Unusual features: specially designed engine exhaust stacks which will provide jet assistance; passenger entrance near the nose through a door with a built-in ramp. With the 240, American Airlines hopes to make a "good approach" to 3?-a-mile air service...
...first-line ships list-battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers, destroyer escorts and submarines-represented 496,994 tons, or 46% of the Navy's combat force at the time of Pearl Harbor. The great majority (144) of the supporting vessels lost were bow-ramp landing ships and craft which did not exist, except in blueprint, when the first bombs fell...
Seeking escape by the only likely-looking "exit," he pops through a little side door. An electric shock tickles his feet. He bolts up a ramp to a death chamber where electric contacts finish him off and dump his body into a wire basket. Meanwhile, the trap resets itself for another victim. The whole cycle takes about three minutes...