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...farmer could collect. Maryland Democrat Daniel Brewster suggested the ceiling should be $10,000 a year, argued that Gov ernment support money "is actually encouraging big farms to grow more wheat, which is sold to the taxpayers at a profit." His proposal was beaten. Virginia Democrat Willis Robertson offered a proposal to raise the ceiling to $25,000 a year. That was beaten. Delaware Republican John Williams tried $50,000, and that was beaten...
...Historian Alan Palmer sets out to do justice to this unsung campaign. From the first landings of the French and British at Salonika in 1915, the Macedonian theater was treated as an unwanted stepchild of the Allied high command and the dumping ground for cashiered generals. As Sir William Robertson, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, saw it, the Macedonian expedition "had no military justification." Rent by bitter rivalries among the national contingents, the Salonika army for months did little except dig trenches, winning Georges Clemenceau's scorn as "the gardeners of Salonika." Commander in Chief Maurice Sarrail...
...cockpit, Captain Kimes felt "a severe shudder," accompanied by the muffled roar of an explosion. His eyes swept the instrument panel in front of him, stopped at the altimeter, which showed 700 ft. and climbing. At the same moment, Flight Engineer Fitch Robertson called out: "We have lost power on No. 4," meaning the right outboard engine of the plane's four fan jets. As Kimes reached for his controls, the huge jet yawed wildly to the right. A fire-alarm bell sounded, and a red warning light flashed on the instrument panel, indicating that No. 4 engine...
...cockpit, Kimes was nursing the crippled plane closer to Travis. As he approached the airbase, he discovered that the hydraulic system had failed and that the landing gear would not lower automatically. Now down to an altitude of only 700 ft., Kimes made a wide, climbing circle while Engineer Robertson and Second Officer Webb cranked the wheels down manually. Then Robertson crawled down through a hatch in the cockpit floor to insert a pin in the nose wheel to guard against its collapsing-a required procedure when hydraulic pressure fails...
Despite some well-placed explosions and the gritty integrity of Robertson's performance, Beach seldom seems more than commemorative. It has the curiously flat quality of reminiscence, like a ritual re-enactment of great and ghastly events that happened a long, long time...