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Farther along the Pan-American Highway, where the foothills with their sharp banks crowd each other like a pack of the cruel little boars of the Mexican brush, the Señor Henry Wallace saw signs of the event for which he had made his first crossing of the Rio Grande. Painted on the rock cuts near Tamazunchale (an old Huasteca Indian name pronounced by gringos Thomas & Charlie) were huge letters: TODO MEXICO CON AVILA CAMACHO -All Mexico with Avila Camacho...
...Whenever the government undertakes a project to educate the Navajo Indians, they simply pack up and move," said William H. Claffin '41, at the third meeting in the American Civilization series which was on Indian culture of the past and of the present...
...incendiaries and light up the scene for the real workmen. These were pilots of Fairey Swordfish torpedo-carrying planes, ancient-looking single-engine contraptions with enough wire between their wings to rig a hen yard. But the Swordfish, like the U. S. Navy's Douglas TBD-1, pack a terrible wallop between their nonretractable wheels. Each carrying an 18-inch torpedo, they came in low over the water, bearing down on a congregation of Fascist ships numbering well over...
Germans ordered French-speaking Lorrainers to choose between evacuating to unoccupied France or being sent to Poland, Germany's Siberia. Almost all of the 800,000 Frenchmen naturally chose France. The Germans, under Gauleiter Josef Burckel, gave them a few hours to pack a suitcase and acquire not more than 2,000 francs in cash, then shoved them across the border. Each day five to seven trains, flying the medieval cross of Lorraine, carried some 6,000 Lorrainers to Lyon, thence south to the Midi. Mostly the evacuees were farmers, welcome to the fallow land of southern France...
...pack of forty harriers started and finished their mile and three-quarters grind in front of the Newell Boathouse...