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...baseball players, be compelled to walk on the road again, only to jump clear of a rash driver, and so on down the road between a double line of huge lorries, where men played cards sitting on petrol tins, shaved with a mere drop of water, using the small windscreen mirror to see how they were progressing, and washed clothes in about one pint of water to a whole packet of soap powder...
...fighter defense, they swarmed in over London. They also visited Liverpool, Manchester and other inland towns, to whose inhabitants the bombing of London is only horrid hearsay. Most of them stayed at great altitude because their converted Messerschmitts, with a red line painted on the windscreen for a "bomb sight," were no good for precision work and, anyway, the purpose of their "total" war was indiscriminate damage and terror among London's civilian populace...
...gone. ... I am not easily frightened but if I had not had perfect confidence in my car I could not have completed the attempt. . . . Throughout the run each way I was bucking about like a pea in a pod. . . . The mist obscured my view and dimmed my windscreen. ... I favored my left hand a bit. the hand wrapped to the elbow with elastic bandages. ... I am not at all happy about it. Frankly, there is no reason why I should be. My car has a potential speed of at least 300 m.p.h. ... I had hoped to approach within at least...
Fairchild Cabin-plane-5-seat cabin monoplane; folding wings braced by steel V tubes on each side; radial motor, low-placed, affording view through sloping windscreen from glass-enclosed deep cabin; fuselage full; rudder, stabilizers large and curving...
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