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...roads in bare feet, carrying produce to market in baskets balanced on poles over their shoulders. As my jeep left the road and followed the twisting, hedged lane that led to Bai Trang, war -or preparations for war-sprang to view. A rough stone wall protected the village. It bore the crudely painted inscription: "Da dao bon pha dinh pha dinh chua ro nha" (Down with the men who make the misery of the people, who destroy the temples...
...skyscrapers. "Workers of Brazil!" boomed Getulio. There was a sigh from the crowd, and then a roar: "Getulio! Getulio!" He spoke for an hour, recited his "conquests" for Brazilian workers. If elected, said Getulio, he would back more social legislation. He would provide free land for the poor. He bore malice toward none...
Steelmakers got into the discussion (see BUSINESS), seemed to be lined up somewhere near the Truman position. Yet even though steelmen felt sure that by voluntary rationing they could supply defense needs and a cut-down civilian demand as well, their plan bore no preventive of a grey market in steel...
...remember. I made them a year ago ... When [they] suggested 26 talks on music I wasn't enthralled. I said it was impossible to talk for 26 hours on music. It would bore everybody to death. However, I tried a few, and you know they were not quite so completely idiotic as I had thought...
China's government-along with millions of people who bore whole industries, piece by piece, to safety-moved back country to the gorges of the Yangtze. Wu became mayor of Chungking, the new capital. For two years, the city (whose wartime population grew from 200,000 to well over 1,000,000) stolidly endured one Japanese air raid after another...