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...building across the Potomac from Washington was no longer the $85,000,000 butt of jokes by capital wags. The Pentagon building was a focus of statistical bewilderment: population capacity 40,000; a telephone switchboard big enough for a city of 125,000; enough pavement for a 24-ft. roadway 49 miles long, including parking space for 8,000 cars...
...Navy platoon was swinging along the roadway past Harvard Hall, headed for their class, but apparently the officer in charge failed to notice a truck parked right in the path of his men. As the student-officers marched resolutely and courageously onward towards the vehicle, the officer noticed the difficulty...
...north engineers, with equipment from the Alaska coast, hit troubles of their own. The cats, seeking a roadbed, tore off the top moss, exposed sheer blue ice. Sun-melted ice sucked down the roadway. The engineers scraped the moss back, over the ice, put a corduroy planking on top and let nature freeze a solid roadbed. Pushing out of Whitehorse and Slana, one group paused briefly one afternoon on the shore of Kluane Lake at the foot of 19,000-foot peaks. Beside the log cabin of Trapper Hayden and his half-breed Indian wife the Engineer band played...
...Once we saw a 70-year-old British physician ordered off a roadway by an Indian guard who had gone over to the Japs. The old man apparently didn't hear, and straightened up to listen. The Indian rushed up and slapped him so hard he fell to earth. Then the Indian kicked him viciously until several Britons carried the old man away. And this was not an isolated case...
...such model, made by students at Syracuse University, showed an Army reception center as it would normally appear from a height of 5,000 ft., with rectangular lines and shadows, and a white circular roadway clearly identifying its function. In the camouflaged version the central mess hall and some of the barracks have been mottled with paint, the central road circle has been painted out, and straight lines and shadows have been broken up with the aid of sloping fabric screens, transplanted trees and painted fiber board. A dummy silo completes the illusion of ah innocent-looking three-building farm...