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...nothing else could, the imperial homage to MacArthur told the people that Japan was truly beaten. A railway ticket-seller, when he heard the news, dropped his rice bowl, laid his head on the counter and wept. He said: "My heart is frozen...
Hold Fire. In Jacksonville, Ill., firemen responding to an alarm at the Wabash railway station had to wait ten minutes for the fire to arrive - in a baggage...
...Anything can happen if only peace exists - it will be possible to ride a railway train from Canton to the Amur River under a single flag ; possible to irrigate the fields of Hunan with the waters of Szechwan; possible to warm the homes of Shanghai with the coal of Shansi, possible to fuel the trucks of Yünnan with the oil of Sinkiang. The vision is too great, the hope too high for any group or any individual to dare to flout it with impunity...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino), after a nine-day ride in a sealed, packed boxcar, is lined up with other Russian civilians in a German railway depot. German civilians stroll along the line, lifting a Russian chin now & again with an umbrella handle, for closer scrutiny. The Germans are shopping for slaves. Girl 217 (Elena Kuzmina) goes to a pudgy, henbrained grocer's wife and shares a room with another Russian slave, who is trying, in his scant spare time, to keep up his scientific work...
...trucks were across the border into Russia before the Liberty ship which brought them had weighed anchor. Truck drivers worked 20-hour shifts, often on a diet of Spam and bread & jam. A hundred Diesel locomotives hauled tanks, planes, jeeps, command cars, fire engines and ammunition over the tottering railway...