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Below Shanhaikuan the Communists have been raiding the railway on & off. When it runs, the refugees pour down toward Tientsin and Peiping, hard-pressed, pinched and depressed cities themselves but veritable gardens of delight and luxury to the people from the north...
...rammed on to the beach at Tel Aviv for another attempt. When noon came, an assault boat with a few steel-helmeted Irgunists ventured toward the beach, and despite Haganah fire set up a small beachhead. But when Haganah turned mortar fire on the Altalena, and smoke began to pour out amidships, the rest of the Irgunists jumped over the sides, swam for shore...
Just to make the picture clear where it counted, ECA sent ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy H. Struve Hensel down to Buenos Aires (with his bride-his second) to pass the word to Juan Perón & Co. "Why should we pour dollars down here," he asked Argentines, "for something we can buy cheaper elsewhere...
...bawled him out in front of the whole team and fined him $500. Bill began to brood. "Yuh don't feel like pitching when a fine's hanging over your head," he said. The fans jeered. Deafness and all, says Bill, "When 30,000 razzberries pour down on you, you hear...
...clangorous, traffic-jammed pavements, dank, echoing tubes, and steel trestles which never cease to vibrate to the slamming progress of trains. Its lights and liver function with the noisy urgency of a tabloid pressroom. Its buses, trucks & cabs jostle through its arterial streets like stampeding steers. Torrents of humanity pour endlessly down its sidewalks. At night it glares like hell's hottest coke heap...