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Commissions to study trade, labor, white slavery, narcotics, etc., etc. would carry on in the League of Nations pattern...
Manhattan's piles of steel and stone, its solid brownstone houses stood firm, but the city's intricate, antlike pattern of existence failed. The hurricane moaned between skyscrapers in 95-mile-an-hour gusts. Water crept into the subways and trains stalled; thousands of people stayed in downtown buildings, watching the storm crash through the stone canyons. Up & down Long Island and through Westchester County huge old trees were uprooted bodily, usually falling south...
This week the 18th plan went through. In scope it was unprecedented. In operation it was smooth and apparently initially successful-a rare thing for the first job of such a complex kind. In the sky of Holland multicolored parachutes etched a pattern of future military history...
...repetition of this pattern is extraordinarily precise...
...other omission is the stage of the campaign reached last week. As summer wore on, the nature of the pattern began to alter slightly. Instead of repetitions following one after another, they began to overlap-one blow or even two fell before the previous exploitation was complete. The theme remained the same but the rhythm was syncopated...