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...roared out over the Atlantic, radioing to Nazi submarines the location of the convoys that are the British lifeline from the U. S. After unloading bombs the Kuriers flew on their great semicircular course to Denmark or Norway; refueled, made the return trip. Week in & out the British ships sank, with their loads of U. S. foods, supplies, war materials. The need for ships and ships and ships grew greater by the day; in the U. S. the Navy Yard workers' rivet hammers beat faster in the race against time-the undeclared war between the timetables of Franklin Roosevelt...
...Statistics Co., biggest of them all, began an expansion at the time of the 1929 crash, by 1931 had 1,300 employes, a lease on six floors (plus an option on two more) of a brand-new building and its own printing plant. When public interest in the market sank to apathy, Standard could not retrench fast enough. Salaries were cut, the staff was trimmed, executives went months without pay. Nevertheless, the company probably lost money steadily from 1933 through...
...sunk their teeth in his aching head. When he hit the ground and his senses began to return he sent a quick, terrified look about the room. Yet everything looked the same. The roof was still in place, and the delivery desk still retained its immemorial position. He sank limply back in his seat. A second screech, louder than the first, struck him between the eyeballs. As the echoes died away in the furthermost corners of the old building he could hear the dust dropping back on the books and his separated vertebrae clicking back into their places...
Across Portugal and northwestern Spain blew a violent hurricane. In Lisbon's harbor it smashed ships, fishing vessels and a British flying boat, sank a Portuguese warship. Near Zumaya it blew a train off a trestle. In the harbor of Santander an oil tanker exploded, pitched against a dock; fire spread from the dock to the city. Fanned by the wind, the flames cut a swath across Santander, destroyed the custom house, the Bank of Spain in the heart of the city, the 13th Century Gothic cathedral and hundreds of houses. Before the fire...
...three tiny shadows. Then we saw five, then six, then eight, and then more & more. We fired a first salvo of medium calibre shells. A fireball went up from a hit vessel and we immediately ceased firing. Powder clouds covered the water. One vessel turned aflame. Then the bow sank and a little later everything was covered by white foam. On the place where another vessel had just sunk only a long, smoking flame was visible...