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...adaptable T-34, with its broad treads, high belly clearance, a reinforced axle. Its German counterpart, Mark V, or Panther, often bogs down in the mud and breaks its axle. The Red tanks carry Tommy gun crews, equipment and fuel barrels strapped to the side. They also tow caravans of mud sledges, loaded high with food and ammunition...
...Mosquito pilot nervously shot the thing down, then headed home, wondering glumly how he was going to report this without acquiring a permanent reputation as the R.A.F.'s biggest liar. Intelligence officers, finally convinced, guessed the monstrosity might have been an experimental glider tow plane...
When Judy first turned up in 1935, Master Mickey Rooney, then just turned 15, took her in tow, showed her the ropes at the studio, squired her on picnics and to beaches. He always treated her as a child. He also treated her to endless raves about his latest girl. Judy worshiped him. When she was nervous about starting a scene in Love Finds Andy Hardy, her first big part, he kissed her roundly on both cheeks. He has been doing it ever since. But Judy, unimpressed by Rooney as romance, finds Rooney the man "wonderful, one of my closest...
...endless chain, run by water power, along the Erie Canal. He got Governor Clinton's approval, and set up an experimental unit that pulled a boat eight miles an hour against the current of the East River. But farmers along the canal, who sold feed to the tow mules, refused to permit the chain to be installed...
...most were headed for field jobs, mainly in aviation. They serve on ground crews, work as aerographers and photo graphic technicians, gunnery and flying-instrument trainers, operate control tow ers, pack parachutes, drive trucks. Quaint est note of all: women buglers have released the famous Marine "field musics" for combat trumpeting...