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...126th's communications office operates in the only usable portion of a sag-roofed shack set amidst girders of a bombed-out hangar. Most of the wing's 48 B-26 bombers are bunched like sitting ducks on a tiny concrete apron before the hangar. One or two, not finding room on the apron, squat dismally on the open field, so deep in mire that even their propeller tips are stuck fast. Theoretically, there is a large, revetted parking area available for the planes-but a French farmer has built a solid house and two barns right...
...contracts were let by the Air Force at fancy prices. Examples: $23,800 for 28 wooden tent frames, each 16 by 32 ft.; $6,000 to paint and glaze a six-room shack for Base Operations; $25,720 for three latrines; $45,715 for a combination theater, recreation hall and basketball court. Workers, expecting to get something resembling the wages paid in the U.S., got only 64 francs (19? an hour, the lowest possible wage in the Bordeaux area...
...bird bath. Then the truth hit Lilian like a cosmic shock: Petie's father was Lilian's own husband, Carl. Clara did not even try to deny it. Neither, later, did Carl Sayre. But though Lilian kicked Clara out that very day and burned down the backyard shack she slept in, she soon took her and Petie back. It was not only that Clara was a fine servant; over the years she had become a necessary complement to the warped lives of the Sayres...
...came to think of her as a chip off the block his cold, superior mother had been hacked from; then his benders became heroic. Big Clara, lusty and human, was all the things the two women in his life had denied him. Whenever he sneaked into her shack in the backyard, he was hitting back at both his wife and mother. Before Clara ends, Carl Sayre dies from his debauches and Petie, suspected of killing a white man, is shot from ambush. But by that time, Lilian Sayre has grown up enough to know why Carl behaved...
...looked. Ziegler borrowed money from friends and relatives, dubbed his enterprise the Bonanza Oil Co., in five years leased some 16,000 acres. Then he started drilling near Worland. Recalls Ziegler: "Many is the time I've seen Isabella go to sleep in the dog house [the steel shack at the base of the rig] with the drill pumping away, her all bundled up in a sleeping bag to keep from freezing. I've seen it so cold that a wrench dropped on the floor of the rig would freeze there and have to be knocked loose with...