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...ports of the U.S. were throbbing. Americans who live inland were little aware as yet of the staggering magnitude of the outthrust of American production. Pictures of the ports in action were rare-what were routine, everyday sights to thousands of citizens in the pulsing coast towns were the gravest kind of military secrets. Day after day the ships docked, loaded and moved out; and at the other end of their voyages men stacked up or dispersed the millions of packages and crates figuratively labeled: invasion-made. The U.S., might...
Bombs for Everybody. Twice within a week the Fifteenth attacked the important railway center of Zagreb; other attacks centered on the port of Spalato (Split) and the inland town of Brod, headquarters of a Nazi tank corps. But these jobs were only part of a busy week's work for the Fifteenth Air Force...
...morning there were 40 purchasers waiting cash in hand. But there were also twelve checks in the mail and 18 telegrams ordering Gimbels to hold the piece. And there were other signs that the art-buying wave was sweeping the U.S. Purchasers in St. Louis, Detroit and many another inland city have taken to mailing carte blanche orders, asking Salesman Hammer to buy for them sight unseen. One grateful woman art lover thanked Mr. Hammer for realizing her lifelong dream-of owning "a hand-painted oil painting...
...class, and Bill Eberle of the "sophomore" class in the midshipmen-officers' school. In direct contrast to the brothers Carney, Harvard makes the first time these two have been together during their naval career, Ted going to UCLA V-12, and NSD Oakland for temporary duty, and Bill heading inland to Colorado Springs' famed Colorado College for two semesters. They are both Stanford Kappa Sigs...
...upshot we got a great army ashore equipped with masses of artillery, tanks and very many thousands of vehicles, and our troops, moving inland, came into contact with the enemy. The German reactions to this descent have been remarkable...