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They were there at dawn when workers arrived for the morning shift. Some non-union men broke through. Pickets jeered. But there was no serious violence until 200 nonstriking Negroes, who had remained inside the beleaguered plant, made a sortie through Gate 4 armed with iron pipes, steel bars, bolts, razors, knives, and charged the pickets. Hot & heavy was the battle until the attackers withdrew, fled back inside...
...march had begun two days before. Few minutes after midnight the Reconnaissance Troop had pulled out of the pine-shadowed reservation at Benning, was far south when the rest of the outfit turned out of bed at 3 a.m. and got ready to move. By dawn the whole outfit was rumbling south toward Florida on parallel roads. In approach-to-battle formation, trucks rumbled 100 yards apart; machine gunners stood with their eyes on the skies getting the habit of watching for planes; soldiers of the three infantry regiments rode in trucks (soon to be replaced by 603 troop carriers...
...dawn one morning customs officers gave chase to a car, ran it to earth near Scotch Town in County Tyrone. They seized 1,000 powder puffs, 3,245 hair nets, 900 combs, 63 dozen handkerchiefs, hundreds of bottles of perfume. Other booty: lipsticks, nail files, cigaret lighters, 30,000 clothes pegs, onions, a crate of chocolates smuggled over the border in a lorry loaded with chicken crates...
...Fiorello LaGuardia was once U. S. consul at Fiume, was once official interpreter at Ellis Island, speaks eight languages. Morning after the news of Belgrade's coup d'etat, he paused in a turmoil of annual budgetmaking, announced in spotless Serbian: "Zora puca bit ce dana!" (The dawn is breaking...
...Victor Hugo. At his jubilee, Hugo was receiving the foreign representatives. To each he would murmur: "The English representative-ah, Shakespeare!" or "The Spanish representative-ah, Cervantes!" When the representative of Mesopotamia was announced, Hugo was stumped, since there have been no writers of note in Mesopotamia since the dawn of human history. But Hugo quickly recovered his poise. "Mesopotamia," he murmured to his guest,-ah, mankind...