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Crowded in the back seat in a nest of cameras, radio and machine guns, cramped by bulky flying clothes, thumb-fingered by heavy gloves, roosting over his camera as he takes pictures of enemy territory, the observer is jolted by rough air, well knows what it is to be airsick, what it is to be bounced about by peppery pilots (who seldom worry about the guy behind). He has the daylights scared out of him half the time...
Prominent as a sore thumb on the fumbling fist of the U.S. war effort was the Bossert Co., Inc. of Utica, N.Y. last week. The Bossert Co., which in peacetime makes steel stampings, has been humming 20 hours a day, turning out an order of 1,000,000 cases for 75-mm. artillery shells. So fast did it turn out its brass cases that other plants fell behind in providing the other parts. From the U.S. Army came a strange command: slow up. Bossert Co. went back to an eight-hour day until further notice...
...baby cries constantly, he wants something; his mother should find out what it is. If he chuckles instead of going to sleep, he probably doesn't need the sleep. Moderate thumb sucking does no harm; if it continues, he may need more affection, a change of routine...
...easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. So said Hamlet, explaining how to play a recorder...
...They've made up their minds that you're never to know the truth." At last Mother forbade any reference to orphans. But when a visitor remarked that Stan did not look like his brothers, Bellamy said, "Now you know why." And when Stan discovered that his thumb was different from the other Partridge thumbs, Bellamy asked: "You're not surprised...