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Since June 1, Allied raiders have visited Europe on an average of almost every other night. Most of these were 200-300 plane raids. The London Times claimed that the battering of such important railway towns as Kassel, Nürnberg, Osnabrück and Mainz, of such rail centers as Cologne, has forced the Germans to use barge canals and coastal waters. Last month, announcing that R.A.F. bombers were dropping 8,000-lb. blockbusters, the Air Ministry declared that photographs showed 270 acres of Karlsruhe and 370 acres of Düsseldorf laid waste. Other cities have been blasted...
That evening, after a festive duck dinner, Willkie drove through rainy streets strung with orange & red Chinese lanterns to the railway station. There one of the luxury trains of pre-war North China, shunted four years ago to this tiny railway, had been polished, clean-sheeted and made ready for the party. The train chugged as far toward the front as was safe. At midnight it stopped on a siding...
...Chosen annually by the unions on the basis of their previous records in the labor movement and for general intelligence and capacity for leadership, fifteen men will take work in the Business and Public Administration Schools and in the Economics Department. The first group, already in residence, represents the railway clerks', ladies' garment workers', hatters' and electricians' unions. Tuition and expenses are paid in part by friends of the University and partially by the unions...
...Workers who move to new jobs pawn clothes, jewelry, watches, radios and cameras to get railway fare. When they get their first checks they redeem the goods by mail. A Los Angeles shop sent a radio on to a workman in Honolulu last week. Into one shop walked a carpenter who had borrowed $80 last year to get to a construction job in Alaska. He repaid his loan and gave the proprietor $1,400 in cash for safekeeping...
Madagascar's last important port, Tulear, surrendered to British naval forces. The island's main railway was occupied by South African troops. Vichyfrench officers and their dark Malagasy troops laid down their arms, happy at the prospect of the continued pensions promised by the British. Only in isolated southern sections were there still Vichy adherents under arms. These sections were Britain's for the taking...