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...owned houses outside the gates, their families were knocked off their feet, and window panes disintegrated. Passengers in a TWA stratoliner, 6,000 ft. up and 20 miles away, saw "huge pillars of white smoke ... a bright flame at the base." In towns 125 miles away people felt the shock...
...last week the stature of destroyers grew. They became much more than busy little sea shepherds. Psychologically they were projected to the bulk of battleships; they became a new hope of victory, a pledge that Britain was not alone, a shock to Axis complacency-all by the simple fact of a horse trade. The U. S. swapped 50 "over-age" flush-decker destroyers for eight Atlantic bases...
Soon Salvationist Damon switched to soul-saving. His steady rise to the Eastern commissionership in 1935 paralleled the Army's own growth in the U. S.. Commissioner Damon, with piercing blue eyes, shock of white hair and resonant voice, played a leading role in that change. Since 1893 he has traveled 1,099,787 miles, spoken at countless thousands of meetings, made thousands of converts. Last month 900 sinners came forward at his meetings...
...Chief of the A.E.F. in France, the Marshal of France, Commander in Chief of the French Armies of the East, cites to the order of the Army: 'The 3713! R.I.U.S. Has shown, during its first engagement the very best qualities of bravery and audacity which are characteristic of shock troops...
...Viva Almazán!" and pelted them with stones. Firearms went into action, killing two and wounding seven. The peons were in a gay mood. Some of them did not know that a new Government Congress was to be installed next day and that they were to serve as shock troops should the numerous followers of defeated Candidate Juan Andreu Almazán attempt to interfere...