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...dawn one morning FBI men raided Terminal Island, a disordered conglomeration of tiny wooden houses, fish nets, rabbit warrens, where 2,000 Japanese lived right in the middle of Los Angeles Harbor, a stone's throw from the Navy's Reeves Field. Agents blocked the bridge, rooted through the narrow lanes of fishermen's huts, carted off 383 men for "investigations...
...surer than ever, although we may still have a few hours of darkness ahead, there will be dawn and victory...
...morning was ever more crowded with errors than that sunny dawn of Dec. 7. There was no reconnaissance patrol in the sky. Planes were huddled together-the better to be guarded from sabotage but the more convenient for enemy bombing. The aircraft warning system had been shut down, according to orders...
...mournful mooing of cows, the indignant squalling of infants and the sleepy curses of U.S. workers, Monday, Feb. 9, will dawn one hour early. On that day the national Daylight Saving Act, signed last week by President Roosevelt, will become effective...
...parts of the country, as men worked in shifts around the clock, as other men began to arrive in Army & Navy hospitals, the daytime audience was losing its simplicity. That audience has always been considered as "the housewife." To sell her, the agencies have loaded the networks from dawn to dark with soap operas or, in radio lingo, "washboard weepers." Listed last week were no less than 65 of these daytime serials. They had about 80% of daylight network time...