Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1949 — Page 19
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What most people don't Know. about: Persiey makes rather interésting conversation with ‘the - right’ individuals-=namely, éhers, .
My attention was drawn to parsley recently when I saw a pile of the stuff ‘alongside and on top of a thick steak at another table. (I didn get any with my cheese sandwich and bean soup. ) - “The man promptly brushed the greens aside. ‘= Why? They were put on his plate for a pur_pose_apd surely it wasn’t to brush aside. The steak looked most appetizing but we need not’ go into that. "Parsley (carum petroselinum) is ‘our concern, Foe
It Took Only 15 Words
IL ASKED myself a few questions about pars- | ley. The answers. were of poor quality ‘since my knowledge -at that point was exhausted after about 15 words. Now you - ‘know where that put me. Stumbling around the Circle I got the thought to ask the chef at the Saratoga Bar but decided to settle with someone at the Columbia Club. 8. Otto Strucksberg, catering manager, was very helpful. He told how the practice originated. | He didn't vouch for it as the gospel truth but that's the way he heard ft. ; In the olden days, Mr. Strucksberg said, a piece of parsley on a piate meant the chef had personally put his stamp of approval on it. The parsley was the touch, the mark of quality. “Let's go'sée our chef,” Mr, Strucksberg said. “He may have some ideas” We went to see Henry Van Benten, executive chef. “ Mr. Van Benten explained parsley glorified a dish and was an exquisite flavoring vegetable. In value it ranked with water cress and that, I assumed, was pretty high, “I've used parsley all my life,” said the chef. . “More people should eat more parsley, it's good for -them,” . . With a handful of parsley in my “possession, I munched my way to the Claypool kichens where Fred Haver, executive chef, ruled. He was delighted to see me with parsley. From Mr. Haver I learned that parsiey was very rich in iron and that it was a pity Americans threw it off their plates. We would be much healthier if we ate parsley, he said. “Did you know parsley is also a. breath killer?” asked Mr, Haver. “A tobacco, liquor‘or onion breath goes pfffft when you eat a little parsley.” Good. No more Sen Sen for me. The chef told about the legend he picked up in his native Germany, It seems Lucrezia Borgia used parsley on- her “potent” dishes. The guest who had parsley on his plate wasn't long for this world. Parsley, stressed Mr. Haver, isn't used for that these days as far as he knew. Before I left.-1I had a handful of French-fried. parsley which was supposed to be delicious and good for -a person, too. “Parsley should be eaten,” the chef reiterated. “It's-a-great-déal mbre than a decoration.” - Feeling a little giddy with all my parsley
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‘he said it almost makes him cry td see guests We're unhappy about it, and it
interested in parsley.
“and C and on chops, steaks, lamb, veal—ummmm.
“SECOND SECTION.
public Apathy “Saps Morale _
By VICTOR PETERSON 1:AM AN Indianapolis policeman . . , not one but many. I can’t tll you my several names becausé I work for a living. I want to keep on.working. Remember, I, my wife, thy chil. dren all live here, Indianapolis Is as much my home as yours. The deaths the injuries and the accidents, which make Indianapolis so unsafe, are your problem and mine. I have more’ public responsibility because ~f my job. Our bad traffic record is partly ‘my fault, but 1 am not ‘the only person to .
Parsley . . . With experts such as Fred Ha. ver, Claypool executive chef, it's the final, supreme touch that should be eaten.
behind my belt ‘dnd in my coat pockets, my at-plame. tention was next turned to Robert Kiefer, Lincoln! Right now I'd say that the Hotel chef, {morale of the department is
Mr. Kiefer“is such a Deliever in parsley that about as low as it ever has been.
ignore it, When guests eat it, he's happy. Any- isn't any too easy to work when one who eats parsley 1s a gourmet in Mr. Kiéfer's you're down. That feeling doesn't estimation. And smart, from a health standpoint. help cut town Ascigents, “IT Had Yo decline his offer of parsley. My next! — ue destination was the Athletic Club. Catering man-| WE WA ANT ww be wiicemen or ager Basil Gray was. happy that someone was we wouldn't stay on the job. {We're not getting rich. - In fact, Henry Bick, executive chef, was or r appeared it's a squeeze to take care of to be even happier than Mr. Gray that someone|the wife and kids: We could was interested in parsley. Why, parsley was rich Make a lot more money on other in minerals, especially iron, rich in vitamins A|joDs With a lot less risk. I guess all of us started like balls of fire. We were going to - '|seé ‘that. the law was upheid, the guilty brought to trial and convicted. How we feel isn't a result of the past few weeks or months. - Lots of us are old-timers who lost our heart years 0. It only takes a little while on the force to lose your punch. There have been. just too many times when a "pill" somewhere (along line has gotien some joker off or one section of town has {gotten another. We've slapped sign on _ sign
On fowl, no. In soups, yes.
Offered Me a Handful!
I GAGGED slightly when he asked if I ate parsley and when 1-said yes, he offered to get me a handful. Thank you, chef, but I've had enough parsley for a couple years. 80, friends, don’t treat parsley, a member of the umbelliferae family and closely related to carrots and. parsnips, as you do the panties on, lamb chops. Parsley is good for you, the experts say. Of course, I'm “in need of Tums right aow, but-it’s-not surprising after-a bushel of parsley. Wow, what. I know about parsley now.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1949
No. 6
the force,
around town that “you can't do this and you can't do that.” And| what does it mean? It means one thing in ene part| of town, something else in!
By Robert C. Ruark
WASHINGTON, Mar. 4—The broad subject of major league baseball, now under scrutiny as a
few sinews in it apart from the reserve clause _. quarrel that I would like to see gnawed by the ' legal lions, There is no doubt that the reserve clause, which ties the athlete to his original owner and forbids him opportunity to work at his trade if he incurs a boss’s displeasure, is pure peonage. But the peons are largely happy peons, who would be wrangling a wall-eyed mule for miniscule dough on some hard-scrabble farm but for the mercy of their enslavers, thé club owners. It is not hard to compress your sympathy in | the case of ballplayers, most of whom are vastly "overpaid for playing a game six months a year, and telling lies about their prowess for the other six.
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If baseball is big interstate-commerce, and also a monopoly, which it seems to be, I would not mind sceing a few restrictions tangled around the ankles of the owners. Restrictions, say, governing the quality of their product, and their right to swindle the customers with shoddy stock for year after endless year.
Shaggy Browed Old Pirate
WASHINGTON is almost the perfect city to ¢ *monstrate what may be done along the lines of cheating the consumer under baseball's closédcorporation handling. Mr. Clark Griffith, a shaggy-browed old pirate whom I leve personally, has callously dealt in muscular fraud for decades here, with his anemic Nationals, secure that nobody can (1) run him out of business or (2) take his franchise to another
city. ‘Griff had pennant winners in "24 and 25; and again in '33. For a great part of the time before and after'those dates he had peddled a shamefully debased commodity at full prices.
- Jd The local suckers have crammed his park,
chiefly because it—like the crooked dice joint of famed allusion—was the” only one in town. But if he said he was selling major league baseball it was
possible trespasser on the antitrust laws, has a
another. If a law is a law, it should stick for everyone. i
as big a fib as if he had claimed to give away gold/ _huggets with every hotdog. . The team he fielded for opening day last year w : cost him about as much as a second-hand bicycle, STRAIGHT political pressure. His inclination has always been to trade his own, isn't good either. Every, time the! personally-developed ballplayers as soon 3 their! political complexion changes, so! salaries made lumps on the club payroll. e once does our personnel. You work! sold Joe Cronin, his son-in-law, for a quarter-mil-| your way to the top, and bang—! lion clams, his top achievement. {overnight you're out. Sometimes. With his mangy collection of hasbeens, never- the man who feplaces you is bet-| will-bes, displaced persons, relatives, and kindred’ P y | misfits in the baseball business, Griff is hoodwink-| '€f; Sometimes he'isn't. ing the Washington people as fully as if he were! Anyway, along comes the pressugaring well-water ‘and advertising it as Coca- Sure. You do what you're told Cola. because you've got a family and
: i, . kids. It's happened. Somebody Connie's Spavined Athletics
doesn’t want to go along on a CONNIE MACK, with his generally spavined oh RE lS amt Athletics; the po’ white trash of the St. Louis This d "th v d Browns, and the aimless athletes of the pellagra- 5 Caesn appen every cay, bitten White Sox-—they all hustle a purposefully spurious commodity, and are secure to keep on selling it, because of their closed shop.
what to expect. Those of us
| has a story to tell. He talks
that first extra cent for com in on my own time. .
st in district cars
Your Indianapolis policeman
to his family and a few v good |
friends, but he doesn't dare | open his mouth and cry his name. This story Is HIS
STORY. It is written as tholigh “one man speaks. In-reality, it is a great number of police, a composite of many, many feelings from top brass down the line throughout the department.-- These feelings are part-
ly responsible for the miserable showing of Indianapolis In | traffic.
and continued time and again be-| cause a defendant supposedly is! sick, out of town on business or but you get so you never know , pew lawyer needs more time to
udy. We're supposed to make arrests.
A city like Los Angeles today” is: vastly more don’t make a lot of arrests for §o what do we do? We make
deserving of a major league franchise than Wash- traffic violations. ington, considering how Griff’s abused it, but there would if. there was a consistent] is no legal way of knocking the frapchise loose! policy. from the undeserving. . Not long ago we were told to, Washington is as passionate a sports town as ¢rack down. We did. ever you saw. Redskins, is a.cult here. The district is daffy over g]q habits. racing, basketball—even rassling always managed. Maybe nobody cares whether we to exist here. As the capital of the world today, ..ack down or not. Washington would coddle even a so-so baseball ‘team with all its fiscal affection. But because of the monopolistic’ shape of the whole baseball business, it drags along for year after weary year with a Hock ‘of semipros masquerading- as professionals: a You would say that any healthy “competition| would run the Griffs, the Macks, and the Com- Deen a consistent policy in the iskeys out of business, It would. But under base- courts. You’ pick somebody up bai's odd immunity from the house rules of other for driving like hell through town businesses, competition is impossible. «land bring him into court, I think; gentlemen of the jury, that constitutes It sort of gets you down. Maybe monopoly. I risked my life catching that’
[manfac. He never thought he
in. most arrests or places where you know- an arrest should be made.
THIRST OF ALL " there
Gold-Duster
WASHINGTON, Mar. 4—Let us consider today the case of the federal gentlemen with the wellwashed ears and the gold-flecked spats; the durndest story I ever heard a lady tell. You know about Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, the Director of the Mint and the best housekeeper this government ever had. Never wastes a thing. So there she was on Capitol Hill asking the legisla- - tors, please, for $4,900,000 for thé manufacture of nickels, dimes, silver dollars and, of course, gold bricks to be buried in Ft. Knox. The kindly Mrs. R. (she passes chocolate drops to callers at her office) was doing fine, too, when’ one of those Congressmen, by name of Gordon Canfield of New Jersey, harumphed and wondered how much money she was saving the tdkxpayers by having her money-makers take baths every afternoon to wash the gold dust out of their eyebrows.
Furnishes Spats, Too
MRS, ROSS turned the answering of that one over to her assistant, Leland Howard, who said the system didn’t only concern bath water. There was the little matter of those brick makers getting gold dust between their toes. So Mrs. Ross furnishes them spats and insists they wear ‘em. She also provides them aprons and gloves. “And as their clothes wear out,” Mr. Howard continued, “we burn them and recover the values.” Mrs. Ross interrupted to assure the fascinated lawgivers that she never allowed her money men to wear their work clothes home. Yes, the Congressmen insisted, but how about the bath water? Wel, sir, said Mr. Howard, when ‘Mrs. Ross’ helpers finish their labors each evening and turn in their spats, they “have to take baths. “And we
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might get killed or kill somebody else. But what's the use. Lots of By Frederick C. Othman times the judge says a dollar and costs, costs suspended. So the joker gets off for one
. ) ' | measly buck. take this bath water and we pass the water = mq... maybe I've got a red hot
through sumps so that the metallics will drop tol, case. Not many of .s get time the bottom,” he continued, “and we recover a Con- oe for heing in court. Once we're! siderable amount of gold and silver in this man- committed -to a case we have to! ner.” she -- up or the cara is tossed out. Rep. Canfield still wanted to know exactly howW| 1 4on't kibw how many times much gold the bath water assayed. Mr. Howard {va come into court and baen told said this was difficult to report, because the scrub that the case has been continued. water goes into the same sumps as the bath water tye even heard lawyers ask for and is prospected for gold at the same time, a continuance because ‘he client “Yes,” said Mrs. Ross, “we also recover values from the sweeps on the floor and we periodically scrape the chimneys and walls. If we tear up an old floor, we burn it to reclaim the gold that might be buried in it.
‘Even Gas Can't Escape
BACK IN 1937, she added, the Ban Francisco .mint moved from-an old building to & new one.| She tore up the marble floors and had 'em assa yed| for gold content. Then she wrecked the old prick |
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CHICAGO, Mar, 4
We vould and some easy ones and forget it. |
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And that gets me around to|
{you people.
A lot of you don’t know the!
Then we law when you get in your car and | The local pro football“team, the!slacked off and went back to our drive; That goes for the rest of | Nothing happened. you who walk out from behind | patked cars and drag your kids] across the street in the middle of |
It's a tough job to make a case the block.
-I don't ‘know-how. many times]
ve had people scréam because;
I haven't’ made arrests. I have,
to hew the. line mighty close to! hash’ re syre.l make a. good. arrest...
We make a lot of illegal ones. | We know some character should be .locked up. We haven't got a leg —to--stand—oen but -go- ahead. anyway. Anytime that character {wants to sue us for illegal arrest we're right behind that old eightball. We could make a lot more ar rests in this traffic problem vou people would back us up. don't blame: you some of the time. If you sign an affidavit you have to be in. court every time the case comes. up. . = = WHAT HAPPENS! It gets continued and continued afd the person who signs the affidavit misses day after day of work. There's another thing in this accident deal; too. ‘We know what happens. You're ol hot and
chimney and found it also impregnated with gold. today that the nation’s traffic deaths during January were 8 per,
That isn’t all; Mr. Howard said. When gold is cent higher than they were for
the same month last year, and’
meited and bubbles in Mrs. Ross’ cauldron, some plamed the increase on the weather.
of it goes up the chimney in the form of gas. Sol The January toll was 24330 she has a kind of mechanical gad catcher on thé! 4p. sammie month ‘last year. roof to turn it back into gold. . He estimated, and Mrs. Ross agreed, that the Te that the wn burned spats, the well; washed ears, and the swept! . gust boosted travel, which floors save in gold and silver between $75,000 and apparently was the chief cause $100,000 per year. of the increase. This, as the ‘deeply impressed Congressmen In the North Atlantic states, were quick to.point out, is no inconsiderable sum ore the weather was unseasto keep from going down the drain. They compli- onably good, deaths increased 48 mented Mrs. Ross and they recommended she get
Has the jast portrait of President Franklin Roosevelt been completed? . of President Roosevelt for
collapsed is unfinished. The artist does not plan to finish the portrait. It shows Mr. Roosevelt's dim poet nd. ye suite 97 Mia Doty
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i d| all the money she asked. The evidence indicated, per sent Eouh Aanitie : ane after all, that she'd waste not a fraction of a cent. increases. BR —— | —-—
Reports No Deaths
There were 31 per cent more deaths in the largest cities of {500,000 or more population, 75 ==" per cent more in the 25,000-50,+ Does the Commisgioner. of Patents ever have goo grovp—an the power to withhold the issuance'of a patent? in the 10,000-25,000 group. Yes. During times of war the Commissioner of These increases were offset by, Patents .is authorized to withhold the issuance ofireqyuctions of 17.per cent by cities
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a patent and order the invention to be kept secret or 200,000 to 500,000 population, | pub ie 25 per cent by the 100,000-200,000
if its publication would be detrimental to safety or national i a ; . _|group and 32 per cent by the 50,- : “1 000-100,000
Does newly i _— ve any effect on the lovomotive whistles?
Swe wiwly fallen Snow, ; iy Jepoutiag
d 47 per cent more]
.compared with 2160 deaths for
Worcester, Mass, with a population of 193,700 placed second | and Hartford, Conn, 166,300! residents, was third largest city’ with no deaths. Of the 468 cities of 10,000 or| more population reporting, 321 disclosed perfect records. Leading Cities
The leading cities population group and the number
.lof traffic deaths per 10,000 regis-
tered vehicles included: "More than 500,000 population: | San Francisco, Cal, 2.2; Buffalo, N. Y., 3.0; Milwaukee, Wis, 3.2. 200,500-500,000 population: Oklahoma City, Okla.; 0.0; Ports land, Ore, 1.0; Oakland, Cal., 100,000-200,000 population: Pe
adena, Cal.; Stockton, Cal, and [Rockford, IL., all 0.0. | 25,000-50,000: _ Jackson, Mich.;
3 | 10,000-25,000: Fort Lauderdale,
Palo Alto, Cal, all 00.
better a n These men are the present class in training to become mem. 2 Her Se) 4% bers of the Indianapolis Police Department. Like: they will start in a burst of enthusiasm.
day ‘around so we can get that affi{davit before you cool off. You /get to thinking the other guy’s al pretty fair egg and prosecute.
in each)
group, |Battlie Creek, Mich. and Joliet, Oklahoma City, Okla... which Ill, all 0.0. had a perfect record and has a Yes. A locomotive whistle an be hushed up by population of 204408 was the Fla; Klamath Falls, Ore, and
no deaths Pain 4
‘others, now on
Will they have
the same drive two years morale says "neo." Could. it that kills that drive?
“from now, even six months? © Current bu you Mighst it poli ted Veale
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bothered at the time and do a lot
There aren't many “hours of the when there's a prosecutor
don’t want te-
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Or, the one who broke the law
|has time to get in touch with you, | | promises to get your car fixed. |That’s that. All you want. is the i; New York today. The price might be a few
paid for. Don’t you ever stop to think he jcould have killed you or your
, cap pic er paid his fee. T don't get family? If Witnesses won't ‘sign Yo} CO |
ing those affidavits we can't’ crack down and make things tough.
ty yelling about signing an “> Europe" Ss Auto bA
akers Bid
For Cut in U. S. Business ~ Smaller Cars Offer Fabulous Mileage
“To Compensate for Lack of Power
By 8S. BURTON HEATH, NEA Staft Correspondent NEW YORK, Mar. 4—-You can buy a brand-new automobile, | right out of the original carton, for a trifling $1050, excise tax paid,
dollars higher, w
cover transportation cost, in other cities, If you insist on the car of tomorrow with the engine in Tear,
‘French, British and |Czeén” ‘automobile makers
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You can say I'm crying in my of American motorists who want, .CASES can get Kicked around Deer. but it's no snap being a ,, “ro; jace pre-war -jalopies but
copper.” . We need your help as much as
you need ours.
I can do a good job, but it
takes everybody all the way up: and down the line. lar exchange,
Monday: A Sad Result.
Lizzie Still Goes
LAKEPORT, Cal, Mar. 4 (UP) — A Ford roadster | owned by Ray Stacy. of Nice, Cal, got its 48th set of license plates today. Mr. Stacy bought ‘the 1902- Modél T second-hand in 1919 and has kept it running ever since, using it for personaltransportation. « Phe-tate Henry Ford Sr..is believed to have personally helped construct the roadster. The license plates cost the minimum $6.
1924 Ford for Sale : Along With ‘Glamour’
HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 4 (UP)— Mavie- prop man doesn't believe $350 is too much to ask for a 1924 Ford touring sedan—if it has glamour. Mr. Bahr offered the car in a classified ad, saying it was formerly. used in “Our Gang” comedies, It was given to him by Producer Walter Colmes after the buggy refused to run. ‘Besides, it's got tires,” Mr. Bahr said.
four new
Senator: Bahr.
who either can't get delivery or won’t pay the inflated price. And the foreign manufacturers are anxious to get badly needed dol-
For a week the old “Fighting 69th” “Regiment armory was packed with specimens of 31 European-made automobiles, and with tens of thousands of Americans who paid to look them over and, often, to order. Most of them were British made, ranging downward from a pretty fancy Rolls-Royce sports job (retailing for $22,500) to the
Anglia (retailing for $1399), which actually is a two-door British. Ford.
Cruises at 45 The cheapest car in the show P L($1030). was the Italian Simca- , Fiat, a cute little carriage that’ weighs only 1350 pounds, and is {$upposed -to cruise at 45. miles an _houf-—spurting to 60 in a pinch— and do 45 miles on a gallon of petrol. This attracted considerably less attention than the French Renault, second lowest-cdst exhibit $1317), which has its engine in the rear, circulates heated air in the body in. winter, and is supposed to cruise at 55 miles an hour, push to 72 if you're in a rush, and fravel 50 miles on a gallon of gas. These were the babies of the show, and they intrigued most visitors. - But the real buying interest was more on some of the intermediate sizes like the Mor-
ris, the Austin and the Hillman,
which are the big three of Eng-
By Dick Turner
Hike in U. S. Traffic Deaths CARNIVAL Blamed on Mild Weather
Fatalities Increase 8% in January
Compared to First Month Last Year (UP)-—-The National Safety Council said
mream——
k that up for a mere $1317, Plus local sales tax.
are land’s small. car field in about anxious to cash in on the plight that order.
Brings $1575 The Morris Minor, either cons
vertible or all-weather, sells for
$1575 in New York. The Austin two-door brings $1595, the four door $1720. The Hillman Minx is
offered for $1896.
Other lower-priced cars that
Europe hopes to popularize in. this country include the $1985
Singer,
Ford's $1621 four-door
Prefect, and two Czech offerings for which, as yet, no dealer out-
{lets have been obtained.
Except for the Fiat, the Re-
inault and the Anglia, all of the cars offered by Europe list for more, in New York, than a standard Chevrolet or Ford.
What they offer, and what ine
terested many . visitors . at. the show, was economy and ease of
parking. All are short, over-all,
in contrast with American
“smal. -cars. The biggest of. the.
smaller European offerings, the
Czech Skoda (about $1800), is 159%... inches rr. to. ‘bumper? compared with. Ford and ==
Chevrolet's 197 inches, and
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weighs 2000 pounds contrasted with Ford's 3175, 3 ;
35 Miles to Gallon ; Chevrolet: claims about 23 miles to the gallon, and Ford about 20, But most of the imports claim at least 35, and “Renault,” Fiat and" Morris boast even better mileage. On the other hand, they are small, * None of them will seat three comfortably in the rear, and the average man hasn't enough - room in back for his knees. y Also, they “are four-cylinder, low-power, high-speed machines, Even the Fiat talks about cruise ing at 45 miles an hour. The Singer claims a top speed of 50, just about comparable with Chevrolet; the Austin 75, the Hillman 70, the Morris 65." * Sacrifice Power But these speeds are accome plished at the expense of power, | usually with a. fourth high speed | roughly comparable to the Amer ican over-drive. Because they are built for economy-—with engines | delivering from 19 brake-horse« power in the case of the Renault to a top of 40 in the Austin—they
(are logy, slow on the get-away,
| by comparison with American | cars. Admittedly, they are not | what Americans want for tours | ing. | Recognizing these . limitations,” most of the foreign makers are shooting for the “second car” market. They realize they can't {threaten American domination. | At most, they might altogether | export to us as many cars as one smaller American independent {| Produces,
‘Odom 2 OF to Hawaii. For - 2d Flight Try
| SAN . FRANCISCO, "Yai [{UP) -—— Flier Bill Odom was | route to Honolulu today a | a Pan-American cargo plane hy |also is carrying the light s ngined aircraft with
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