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...would pick out the biggest and the fattest troop-carrying aircraft. . . . Then I would call to my gunner, 'Tallyhoo, Andy,' and ... I would see our bullets cross-stitch the fat troop-carrying aircraft up and down, back and forth. . . . Then I would wait for the blood to come out of the holes made by our bullets. That's what I'd do, by God, that's what I'd do. Then . . . you know what I'd do? I'd give the motor everything it had, and I'd ram the Goddamn...
What an automobile means to the average U.S. family, a U.S.-made sewing machine means to peasant families throughout the world. Besides being a household necessity for mothers with children to clothe and yards of cloth to stitch into voluminous dresses, it is a symbol of standing in the community...
...hold the Dutch East Indies, the U.S. Navy last week told the story in detail. Its narrator was six-foot, whip-lean Commander Paul Hopkins Talbot, leader of the squadron of four 1917-model destroyers that needled the convoy again & again & again, and got away without dropping a stitch...
...every student's desk at Edgewood hangs a brand-new gas mask, product of a factory on the reservation where 2,000 women workers hem, stitch and vulcanize masks for the expanding Army. The masks hang in the classroom both as symbols and instruments of instruction. Edgewood's students are there to learn more than how and when to don a gas mask. Of the lethal gases they learn that chlorine, phosgene and diphosgene attack a man's lungs, are soon blown away. More deadly are mustard and lewisite, which hang in wooded areas for days...
...walls of the box, as well as the pelvis, were covered with pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening lining of the abdomen. Red yarn, knitted by Dr. Van Hoosen herself, showed the pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached to the placenta (a dark red knitted cap) by an umbilical cord of red corrugated rubber balloons...