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...chill grey Monday morning, the big siren sounded atop the Old National Bank building. Spokane (pop. 176,000) was ready. The National Guard was out, and ack-ack crews atop Newberry's five & ten fired blanks into the sky. Taxis rushed 400 nurses to 40 aid stations...
...passed by the Communist Viet Minh forces on their way into Laos. Under the broiling sun the colonel in command, walking disconsolately along the airstrip, looked up as he heard the sound of air craft engines. Within seconds a C-47 airplane, its wings and tail riddled by Red ack-ack fire, rolled onto the runway. The pilot braked it to a stop and his passenger, a prim, neat little man wearing the four stars of a full general, climbed out. The astonished colonel clicked to attention, saluted, and said: "I was not expecting you, general...
...Flash ack (n.) : A card acknowledging a subscription or inquiry...
...Tolstoy Memorial [at Yasnaya Polyana] was closed today, which did not matter much to us, because we hadn't come to look at it anyway ... Large numbers of military vehicles noted. Saw ack-ack equipment...
Antiaircraft batteries seemed confused by Bed Check. One ack-ack officer said he had orders not to fire on planes until they committed hostile acts. Asked if dropping bombs and strafing was regarded as hostile, he grinned: "Well, it certainly is unfriendly...