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These mapmakers, our leaders, have blinded themselves to racial issues. Using the archaic pattern of segregation, they have interposed it upon all problems in their search for solutions. Although medical and chemical research has proven that the blood of Negroes does not in the least differ from that of whites, the Red Cross continues to set it apart from "regular" blood. Although men in the Army, as human beings, react similarly to given stimuli, the War Department insists upon segregating Negroes from whites...
...Golf Association cut out a war pattern for golf clubs: let them combine golf with victory gardening by replacing part of the rough (not fairways or greens) with vegetable gardens. Westchesters swank Wykagyl Country Club went enthusiastically supererogatory, plowed up its first and second fairways and allotted a patch to each of 55 member families. Members plan to play nine holes each Sunday, spend the rest of the day gardening...
Militarily, the invasion was brilliantly conceived, effectively executed-despite some bumbles (see p. 14). But the world had looked for something more than military brilliance in North Africa. The oppressed peoples of Europe, from Dunkirk to Danzig, looked to North Africa for the hope and the pattern of freedom. The people of the U.S. and Britain looked there for the fulfillment of their proud assumption that they were the bearers and the protectors of freedom...
...Pattern for the Future. The Court's decision was of lasting significance. Despite the boom in railroad profits, some 30 major U.S. railroads are still in the courts. Together these "broke" railroads operate nearly 30% of U.S, railroad mileage. One has been in receivership for 38 years. With a clear precedent and no higher court of appeal, these railroads can now stop going to law and knuckle down to the job of reorganizing. But it will be a tough ride: before ICC and the courts get through, their combined capitalizations will be cut from the pre-depression...
...convoy plowed westward deep into the Bismarck Sea before Kenney struck. High above the convoy, Fortresses first laid a closely woven pattern of bombs. A 6,000-ton Jap cargo ship broke in half. A 10,000-tonner, hit five times, went up in flames. Another cargo ship caught fire. Twice again that day, Fortresses and Liberators returned to the attack, shot down five defending Zeros...