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This time he had a new kind of job on his hands. The B-29s have more tricks to be solved than any Flying Fortress pilot ever dreamed of - such as remote-control guns, cabin supercharging, a set of high-powered engines that can suck tanks dry long before their time if controls are not set just right...
Glass, Glass, Glass. London had developed a deep and understandable phobia: glass. It had felt the blast of high explosives before. Blast would, as it did, strip the clothing off a woman near a factory window, leave the factory and its machines virtually undamaged. It would, as it did, suck the beer out of a mug in a man's hand, leave the mug, the man and his hand unhurt. It would also kill without leaving a visible wound...
...gone when the enemy, simply by flying over China's amazingly efficient warning net, could suck U.S. aircraft aloft and by that deed alone strike a heavy blow in the expenditure of precious U.S. fuel. On the P-40s, the Mitchell bombers and the handful of big Liberators, tiny Jap flags were growing in number. And the U.S. death list was not growing forbiddingly long...
...Canada. Their camps were exotic-clusters of bamboo bashas (huts) surrounded by giant hardwoods, wild growths of pale orchids, glistening green jungles. But incessant rains drenched them. Roving Jap patrols sniped at them. They were enervated by the heat, plagued by hordes of mosquitoes and bloodthirsty leeches that suck a man white if he drops from wounds or exhaustion...
...closeness of the 40 to 29 vote reveals how strongly they are united in the midst of the war. When a weary people turns aside from its vigilant path on the arrival of Armistice II, they will be prepared to gather like vultures at the peace conference and suck the blood from any vital attempts to establish harmony among nations...