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...hour before the plane was due in Chicago, the pilot found the landing gear stuck, informed his shipload of brass hats of the choice before them: parachute or a crash landing. While the passengers worried away an hour preparing for the next-to-worst, the mechanic got the gear unstuck. Among the relieved passengers: WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson...
...Unstuck? Then at week's end came brighter reports. Heavy and medium U.S. bombers unleashed two days of concentrated raiding on the docks of Tunis. The waterfront of that seaport was left in flames over a distance of ten blocks. Allied fighter operations were suddenly on the increase. P-38s (see p. 83) made a sweep across Tunisia's waist to attack Axis concentrations near Sfax. One dispatch told of Allied paratroops occupying an airdrome from which British Spitfires took off 30 minutes later to challenge the Luftwaffe...
...Coquitlam, B.C., one Henry Steen felt something sticky on the sole of his shoe, bent down to scrape it off, unstuck a $100 bill...
...looked as though the Mutual-ASCAP squeeze-by which Mutual would have the advantage of immediate ASCAP music and ASCAP would have a bargaining stick over the rest of the broadcasters-was about to come unstuck. But on Sunday morning Fred Weber got busy on the phone. Sitting in his hotel room, devouring one steak sandwich after another, he began calling Pittsburgh, Texas, Utah, Minnesota. He found one man playing golf, reached another fishing, called another on a yacht, but failed to locate Fort Worth's Captain Elliott Roosevelt. Mail, wire and phone votes rolled in. By late Sunday...
...Hyde Park, got his specially-designed Ford stuck hubdeep in Dutchess County swampland, was unstuck by Secret Service...