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...last fall, when peace was at hand and then suddenly the hand was gone. Before that promise faded again for a while, Joan decided Joe would be home before Christmas. She called the kids together, and after "a conference" they all agreed. Only one present would be bought, "a toolbox with lug wrenches, torque wrenches and all the stuff a person needs to tinker with cars-Joe's favorite pastime...
...World War I tank, is mostly aluminum and weighs only 31,000 Ibs. The UET can be used as a bulldozer, grader, scraper, armored personnel carrier or general-purpose transport, has an over-the-road speed of better than 30 m.p.h. Some new items already in the engineers' toolbox: aluminum landing mats, plastic road surfaces (called "membranes"), and moisture-proof plastic maps that can be wadded up and tucked into a shirt pocket and still retain their original shape...
...Andersson promised to do better next time. He passed secret after secret in prearranged code to Anisimov. Sometimes he would cycle about in civilian clothes pretending to pick berries, but really sketching details of coastal fortifications. Later he would write a report in invisible ink, put it in the toolbox of his bike and leave it parked by a prearranged lamppost. Presently he would return and find another bike in its place. His reward, a bundle of money tied up in ribbons of Sweden's national blue and gold, would be lying in the second bike's toolbox...
...Nikolai Orlov, assistant naval attaché at the Soviet embassy. Last summer, Stockholm's police got a tip to look into the frequent meetings between the two naval officers, Swedish and Russian. The police shadowed Andersson, observed his note-taking and followed his exchange of bicycles. In the toolbox of Orlov's bike, they found all the evidence they needed...
...relative writes from Saipan: ... A few of the boys got over on the beach and watched them dump brand-new tanks, each equipped with a toolbox outfit that left nothing to be wanted, over a cliff. . . . They saw thousands of crated brand-new jeeps being burned . . . and you can't get a jeep to drive with on the island. The orders are: 'Destroy before the civilians get 'em.' They say they're doing a better job of 'burnt earth policy' than when the Japs took over. Maybe they're doing the right...