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...McGonegal, of North Dakota, who had known only prairies, horses, steam engines and a whirl through training camps, went to France. He arrived in the Toul sector on Jan. 19, 1918, where his outfit relieved some Moroccan soldiers near Beaumont. On a clear day the Americans could see the city of Metz. They said to each other that sooner or later they'd knock the damn place down...
...future, jet propulsion undoubtedly has dazzling possibilities of speed, lightness and fuel economy. One problem a propellerless plane solves automatically is that of supersonic speeds at propeller tips; engineers have discovered that a propeller encounters "compressibility burble" and loses its effect on the air when the blade tips whirl at a speed approaching that of sound, about 750 m.p.h. at sea level...
...dress, wearing the nobility's turbans (mounted with gold-wrapped ropes made of camel's hair), were greeted by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and Brigadier General Patrick Jay Hurley, were instantly voted the two most exotic good neighbors of the 1943 Washington social whirl. Hostesses would soon learn that as Wahhabis ("Puritan" Moslems) the two Princes can neither smoke nor drink...
Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, came back last week from a three-week whirl around England with some startling conclusions on U.S.-British relations...
...enough to set even a WAVE all agog with excitement, the NSCS has tossed in as the piece de resistance a final examination on the very last morning of School. so while we sit at our desks surrounded by half-filled cruise boxes with our heads in a whirl of personal travel problems and considerations of to ship or not to ship, we try and try to concentrate on how to solve a mess treasure's messes, and how to set up housekeeping for Lulubelle Noble and her Lieutenant Commander. Privately, we're already feeling a little apologetic towards...