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Best of all, this innovation will put an end to serving tables clogged with students who come back for seconds because their trays are too shallow for adequate first servings...
Over Hamchang, Korea, one day last summer, three silvery U.S. F51 Mustangs wove purposefully down through the clouds; the shallow river below was jammed with enemy armored cars and trucks trying to cross. Calling to his flight to follow, Major Louis J. Sebille, a fighter pilot in World War II, pushed over and went into the attack. Red tracers thudded into his plane.The engine sprayed cooling fluid, began to overheat. Major Sebille's wingman radioed him to turn back. "I'll never make it," the C.O. answered calmly, "I'm going back and get that bastard." Then...
...enemy jet had been shot down in the shallow water of the Yellow Sea, a few miles off Korea's west coast. British carrier planes fixed and photographed the position of the ditched fighter and a U.S. helicopter dropped a marking buoy. A British 1,600-ton frigate, a South Korean motor launch and a U.S. Navy shallow-draft landing craft equipped with a crane moved in through treacherous sand bars to retrieve the prize, while a cruiser and carrier planes stood by to ward off enemy interference. Darkness and high tide interrupted the operation and the allied craft...
...circular trays have already passed the testing stage and won the approval of the University officials, in spite of the shallow partitions. The old army mess trays have not been used at the Union this summer...
Only once did the Amethyst get into dangerously shallow water. Below the boom, she met a patrol boat; Kerans decided to speed by as close as possible, thus give the smaller enemy craft a minimum chance to rake his decks. The Amethyst scraped by with a bare 18 inches to spare. Then a junk without lights loomed up ahead and was sliced in two. Then the biggest guns of all, at Woosung, were safely passed, and the Amethyst was in the clear. In the wide mouth of the Yangtse, she met H.M.S. Concord and the sweaty, half-starved crew...