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...year before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, the Chinese completed the great Canton-Hankow Railway, linking South and Middle China-1,095 kilometers of arterial steel. To delay the Japanese advance, China's defenders wrecked much of the precious railroad. They dynamited one or two major bridges, collapsed five tunnels by exploding TNT-laden trains inside them, sent 95% of the line's equipment rolling off into the Kweichow gorges, where it still rusts. The Japanese never fully repaired this damage, never ran a train between Canton and Hankow...
...hospitals for Puerto Rico. Neutra's buildings are pondered and imitated (especially in technical details of construction) by architects around the world. Says noted French Architect Marcel Lods in L'Architecture : "[He] is already a classic and . . . will be more so tomorrow. Neutra offers us an infinitely precious message...
Later, little Willie sickened and died: "Yes, my darling, impossible as it seems, our precious little soldier boy has been taken away." Later still, to forestall Yankee marauders, "I took my silver sugar dish, cream pot, bowl, forks and spoons and put them into the legs of a pair of your drawers . . . tying up each leg at the ankle and buckling the band around my waist. They hung under, and were concealed by, my hoops. It did well while I sat still, but as I walked . . . the clanking destroyed all hope of concealment. ... I could not restrain my laughter, which...
...beyond human resourcefulness to find a form of joint control which will make it possible to develop the industrial potential of western Germany in the interest of the economic life of Western Europe." And in this enterprise, "we Americans ought to be able to give them precious assistance...
...raised a warning finger, clenched his right fist, grandly embraced Congress in widespread arms, or modestly spread his long, strong fingers against his chest in a self-effacing gesture, men & women stared seriously and intensely, many with mouths agape as if to suck in the meaning of the precious words...