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Kelly might be ambushed. We tried to warn him, but our walkie-talkie couldn't pick him up. The Colonel was very worried. He conferred with Captain Bernard Kotin, an artillery observer, about the possibility of hitting the enemy without hitting our own men. "At least we could burn 'em out of that white house if you could land a shell on top there," said the Colonel to Kotin. "Pretty narrow target, though," he added. Kotin decided to try a smoke shell first and gave the range...
...irregular flying box formation, not unlike the classic battle phalanx. The highest planes were cascading mile-long vapor trails. Over the Channel, the clouds disappeared. Not a boat rippled the Channel's surface. Far out on either side, Spitfires raced along, occasionally tipping their wings to warn the eager fortress gunners not to fire on them...
...Despite these safeguards, the doctors warn that "certain highly dangerous complications are possible and therefore [continuous caudal anesthesia] should be given only in well-equipped hospitals by persons experienced in the technique...
Kill the Pigs. The talk ran cross-country; at the Governors' Conference in Columbus, up rose New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to warn his Midwestern colleagues that unless more grain flowed from the Midwest to the East, milk rationing would be a fact by October...
...provided many jobs in the U.S. for the crippled and disabled. More and more of them are finding a place. In the Kaiser shipyards, for example, a paralyzed arm is no hindrance to I. L. Matthews, who walks under a crane to warn other workers to get out of the way. Deaf James Porter works as a burner in the noisy plate shop where nobody else can hear anyone speak either. Of some 5,000,000 U.S. cripples, it is estimated that 75% are employable-and of some 600,000 epileptics...