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Gleason looked back. "When the last dump went off there was a single column of black smoke that went straight up with the most terrific sound you ever heard ... a black column 100 yards thick holding up the overcast like a pillar." Gleason's destroyers joined the horde of China's fleeing homeless. Six people sprawled, exhausted, on the last bridge along their retreat. Gleason's men dragged them off, blew the bridge and hurried...
These raiders could hardly be put in the nuisance class-they blew up an ammunition dump and a merchant ship, caused casualties. Usually the Japs came in small numbers (four was a good average), but they came often. By week's end there had been 70 separate raids. One night the Japs hit several places simultaneously every half hour between 12:30 and dawn. Tokyo's fantastic radio claimed that constant Jap attacks had driven the U.S. "Voice of Freedom" station...
Said one Salvadoran : "What this country needs is to cart every last bit of armament to Acajutla and dump it into...
...What a Dump. In Secaucus, N.J., police picked up three Harlem musicians coming out of a dump yard, carrying three bags of marijuana...
...solid basis in fact. According to the story, Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan had gone for instructions to the President's private car as it sat on a Chicago siding just before the July convention officially began. The President, closely following the vice-presidential race, had decided to dump both Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace. Worried over the dissension, he allegedly said: "Go on down there and nominate Truman before there's any more trouble. And clear everything with Sidney." Pundit Krock, flatly guaranteeing the truth of the quotation, observed sadly: "Not until the time has come...