The good news, sort of, is that the eager beavers in Silicon Valley are working on that, too. ♦
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Fortunately, eager beavers desperate to learn what they're getting into won't have to wait very long for the big reveal.
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"The Shias who ran the company didn't know anything about the project—they were just eager beavers who wanted to get rich," the businessman says.
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Eager beavers who want to binge-watch the entire series in one go can sign up for YouTube Premium — a $12 monthly subscription that offers offline downloads and ad-free viewing.
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Chick, a law student, is tired of being a waiter by day and gigolo by night - he wants to meet a real girl, not these eager beavers, as he calls them, at Camp Karefree. But, the boys remind him it's either socialize or get fired ("Mix and Mingle"). On the Social Hall Porch, the girls want to dance, but the men are playing poker. When the waiters arrive the girls rush inside excitedly to dance with them.
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Monty Sunshine (Heiningen, Germany 1976) Monty Sunshine (left) w. Chris Barber Band (Netherlands, February 1957) Monty Sunshine (9 April 1928 – 30 November 2010) was an English jazz clarinetist, who is known for his clarinet solo on the track "Petite Fleur", a million seller for the Chris Barber Jazz Band in 1959. During his career, Sunshine worked with the Eager Beavers, the Crane River Jazz Band, Beryl Bryden, George Melly, Chris Barber, Johnny Parker, Diz Disley and Donegan's Dancing Sushine Band.
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McKay originally turned to science after his piano teacher told him he was a "fine clinical player" but had no sense of the art. During his youth, McKay joined a Scouting Troop, Lodge 14 of the Fort McMurray Eager Beavers. He built an atomic bomb for his grade six science fair exhibit, prompting a visit from the Central Intelligence Agency. Among his four diplomas, McKay implied he has degrees in physics and mechanical engineering, and stated he actually has two Ph.D.s.
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Most significantly for his later career, he also > took correspondence courses in orchestration. Shindo enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1944 and served as a Japanese language instructor in the Military Intelligence Service at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. While at Fort Snelling, he also continued his correspondence courses in music and became an arranger for the Nisei Eager Beavers band. Following the war, Shindo studied music at Los Angeles State College and studied jazz composition at the American Operatic Laboratory school.
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He was promoted to captain in early April, as well as made squadron operations officer. On April 12 the Eager Beavers flew a mission to Rabaul for which he was awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to his Silver Star. "Old 666" In May 1942, Zeamer was made squadron executive officer, and took up the upgrading of a B-17E, #41-2666, recently acquired from the 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, for photographic mapping purposes. The aircraft was one of the few in the theater equipped with the trimetrogon camera system, which allowed the creation of photo mosaics for generating maps.
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In time they began calling themselves the "Eager Beavers" for Zeamer's constant volunteering for missions as they came available. An early incarnation of the crew was awarded Air Medals for the sinking of a merchant vessel at Rabaul on January 17, 1943. The bombing of Milne Bay that same day, as well as significant personnel losses to malaria and dengue fever, led to the 403rd being returned to Australia soon after for recuperation. Almost two months of non-combat followed, prompting another transfer for Zeamer, this time into the 65th Bomb Squadron of the 43rd BG, based in Port Moresby, New Guinea, in late March 1943.
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The first aircraft to land on the field was a PBY patrol bomber on August 12. On August 20, thirty-one Marine aircraft (F4F Wildcat fighters and SBD Dauntless dive bombers) were launched by USS Long Island from south of Guadalcanal, forming the field's first permanent air contingent. Two days later, a squadron of U.S. Army P-400 Airacobra (P-39 variant) fighters arrived, and in the coming months a number of B-17s and U.S. Navy aircraft used the base. Boeing B-17E of 11th Bomb Group, 42d Bomb Squadron (Eager Beavers) at Henderson Field in 1943 Surprised by the Allied offensive, the Japanese made several attempts between August and November 1942 to retake Henderson Field.
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Boeing B-17E 41-9122 (Eager Beavers), 11th Bomb Group, 42d Bomb Squadron, taxiing on two engines at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal in 1943. Captain Frank L. Houx and his crew were lost on 1 February 1943 along with two other 42nd B-17Es: 41-9151 (Captain Earl O. Hall) and 41-2442 "Yokohama Express" (Captain Harold P. Hensley). These were the last three B-17s of the 42nd BS. Although the Japanese Army's attack on the Allied Lunga perimeter was decisively defeated in this battle, the Japanese were not yet ready to give up the struggle for Guadalcanal. The Japanese Army and navy made immediate plans to move the rest of the 38th Division to the island, along with the 51st Infantry Division, to try a further offensive against Henderson Field in November 1942.
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