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...Naval Academy told me later: "Suddenly the war got awfully personal. The prows of those boats were high out of the water. They were roaring in for the kill. We opened fire with the 40 millimeters, our main-battery five-inchers and everything we had. When the smoke and spray had cleared away there they were, still boring right on in. Finally we forced three of the boats onto the beach and sent a shore party in to capture their crews. The fourth changed course and headed out to sea with throttles wide open. Since then there's been...
...glass piled over a light bulb and sprinkled with titanium tetrachloride is a convincing pile of smoldering coals. Dry pablum, confetti or bleached corn flakes are used as a snow flurry; ice cream salt is hail, and raw white rice shaken from a colander looks enough like rain. Glycerine spray makes studio props appear...
...remove the high polish from cars and furniture, spray with clear liquid wax; to take the glare from mirrors, apply a mixture of epsom salts and stale beer; such shiny surfaces as oilcloth can be toned down with a spray of shaving lotion...
...their heads. Staff officers urged the general to abandon the trip. At each objection the MacArthur jaw jutted out a little farther. "We go," said Douglas MacArthur. A little after 6 a.m. June 29, the wheels of the Bataan rolled down the wet Haneda runway, churning up a fine spray. Soon after the plane was airborne, MacArthur pulled out the corncob pipe which had been one of his World War II trademarks. "I don't smoke this back there in Tokyo," he said. "They'd think I was a farmer...
After four hours, a chief spoke up. "Well, Barnes, goddammit," he said, "it looks like you've got just what us birds up here need." For $10,000 Barnes agreed to spray the clouds, with silver-iodide particles for three months...