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...charged that July output of bombers and fighters was only 700, up only 200 from January.) Furthermore, the President had not answered Byrd's low estimate of tank production; or his charge that only 105 merchant vessels, including tankers, will be completed this year-less than the Germans sank in June or July; or his statement that only 28 major naval vessels will be added to the fleet before...
Then he talked, smoothly, soothingly. The newsmen's hackles sank. He explained away one irritation after another. But with it in his power to spill the news that the country was eager for, he told nothing. Names of ships and dates were out, he said. He would not even say how long or how often he had conferred with Churchill. All he could and would say was that he had been aboard the cruiser Augusta and Churchill aboard H.M.S. Prince of Wales. The only scene on which he was willing to dwell was the Sunday morning church service held...
...Rackham (municipal) Golf Course, the Brown Bomber was host to 186 of the best Negro golfers in the U.S., professional and amateur. They had been invited to compete in the newest tournament on the colored calendar, the Joe Louis Open. The Champion had sponsored sport ventures before. He sank $30,000 in the maintenance of the Brown Bombers, a nomadic, ne'er-do-well softball team. He had sponsored horse shows, bowling teams...
German Cornejo, 52-year-old Mexican farm worker, heard there might be some kind of work for him across the border. He loaded relatives and friends into his truck and from Sonoyta lightheartedly set forth. Nineteen miles from San Luis the truck's wheels sank into the sand, stuck fast...
...rescue squad sank a shaft into the mound to look for bodies. While they were working, "a smallish, quick-moving man came up and asked: 'Where's my rabbits?' He received no answer. 'Four I 'ad,' he said, 'kept 'em in the-Anderson [shelter], and this morning I saw two of 'em up the top of Beaton Street.' Ford wondered if his warden's training should have included elementary rabbit catching...