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...much. Then the President came down the line in an open car, past the marquee. He shook hands for a long while. Everyone tried not to think of the faceless men, the cripples, the crazed, the dead of 1918; but somehow near in the fresh, fair afternoon were the crash of guns on the Meuse, the flat pound, pound, pound of bombs in Brussels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Old Wounds | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...bombs started thudding into Brussels from 100 raiders that sloped over in waves. They killed 41 civilians, wounded 82. One gutted a house across the square from the U. S. Embassy. whose windows were smashed. Ambassador John Cudahy lost hearing in one ear. The Embassy staff, awakened by the crash, philosophically went to breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Leopold Goes to War | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Bones." "Last man." . . . It was Le Baron. He came like a black tornado. . . . Straight to the two he came, never deviating, straight past Dink Stover, and, suddenly switching around, almost knocked him to the ground with the crash of his blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Skull & Bones | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Under CAA rule U. S. airlines recently completed their first twelve months without a fatal crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plan for CAA | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...rules, took cover in cellars, lay doggo until the all clear signal. A raid shelter a few yards from the crater was unharmed. While firemen and volunteers were clearing away the ruins, three babies were born in a half-smashed Clacton maternity home. They will have company. Despite the crash, Britain's Home Office is continuing to evacuate children from London to Clacton-on-Sea. And the Clacton hotel operators' offer to allow one-third off on any day a bomb falls or mine bursts near by, made day before the disaster, presumably still stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Comes Home | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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