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...There were some big naval guns exploding shells near by with a loud whoosh and bouncing my kite up and down. When we unloaded everything, my crew started tossing out whiskey bottles with sticks in their necks, screamers which sound hellishly like big bombs and make searchlight crews scramble for cover. On the way home we could still see the fires 150 miles away. I was glad that night I was one of the people above and not one below...
...places impossible for airports. A mountain range could be filled with troops overnight. (A glider can land in a small clearing, stop almost instantly.) Since the gliders can be picked up again, commanders could accelerate emergency shipments to areas far distant from supply dumps. Mayhap tank-toting gliders will whoosh down to buttress surprise offensives...
...Angeles they talked about Albert Koons, who heard a loud "whoosh" in his back yard, found an unexploded antiaircraft shell buried in the ground. People in Los Angeles who believed the blackout a failure pointed to the 650% increase in automobile accidents. People who considered it a success pointed out that this meant only that there had been 45 accidents on the first night-only one serious -instead of the usual seven...
...shake Japanese nerves. After lunch, with only a half-hour's swim in the pool (his favorite single relaxation), the President drove back to Newnan, his face grave. He went without the usual gay hand-waving to the crowds of back-country farmers, out to see the caravan whoosh past...
...barbershop of the Jerome Hotel. Thither small boys carried trays of beer, as spectators watched with telescopes through the wide windows Aspen's first running of the national downhill and slalom championships. On Saturday they saw stocky, Austrian-born Toni Matt, of North Conway, N. H., whoosh out of the steep pitch of the "Dipsy Doodle" into the Big Corkscrew to finish first in 2 min. 22.6 sec.-an average of better than 44 m.p.h. Second place in the slalom next day made him U. S. combined champion. Said National Ski Association President Roger Langley, after this first trial...