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...premeditated murder masked by a toothy smile. The Nation had taken a heavy blow. The casualties crept from rumor into uglier-rumor: hundreds on hundreds of Americans had died bomb-quick, or were dying, bed-slow...
...Honolulu hills was the fact that Pearl Harbor was being hit hard. From the Navy's plane base on Ford Island (also known as Luke Field), in the middle of the harbor, clouds of smoke ascended. One citizen who was driving past the naval base saw the first bomb fall on Ford Island. Said he: "It must have been a big one. I saw two planes dive over the mountains and down to the water and let loose torpedoes at a naval ship. This warship was attacked again & again. I also saw what looked like dive-bombers coming over...
...great majority is so ignorant of the matter as almost to neutralize the efficiency of the few. A plan must be initiated that will emphasize and reemphasize, for example, that Boston subways are no better than potential tombs in an air raid, or that water thrown on an incendiary bomb only hastens its explosion. The Boston papers have made a start in publicizing the A B C's of air raid defense. It is a subject that cannot be over-publicized. To be thoroughly effective, it must be put forward in a flood of pamphlets and posters that even...
...could see his squadrons' bombs falling, some near the ship, some a good distance away. One loaded plane hitting its deck would have infinitely more effect. Might sink the thing; certainly would make for a bit of confusion down there. He saw one bomb hit the foredeck; he couldn't tell, but it seemed to have caused a good deal of wreckage. Now if a whole plane-load...
...McCormick, the isolationist scream-bomb, this was a remarkable concession. If the U.S. were to enter the war he might well make much bigger concessions in the name of patriotism-as he and his cousin Joe Patterson (now publisher of the even more successful New York Daily News) did in World War I. If the Colonel again begins whipping up fighting spirit as hotly as he now does isolation, his shift will doubtless cut some interventionist ground from under Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. But the real question of how much strength the Colonel can muster for the battle...