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...loud voice." Workmen completed carving a 3,200-ft. runway from the solid rock of Chungking's mountains to accommodate Willkie's four-motored bomber. The Chiangs visited the garden house set aside for their guest. The Missimo saw that it was properly decorated with new silk draperies, American daisies, ancient paintings and priceless porcelain ware...
...This made me angry. I wear my uniform with honor. It has the Order of Lenin on it. It has been covered with blood in battle. It is plain to see that with American women what is important is whether they wear silk underwear under their uniforms. What the uniform stands for, they have yet to learn...
Oldtime GOPoliticos did not quite know what to make of this new-and nicer-political face as Convention Keynoter Boothe stood before the microphone, slim and cool in a black silk dress, occasionally gesturing gently with a pair of blue-rimmed harlequin spectacles. (Murmured one: "She can even wear glasses!") As keynoter of the Connecticut convention, she clearly stated her concern with the terrible necessity of making democracy work in the middle of the war-to-end-civilization, and the editors who saw that she had ably stated the general concerns of many citizens reprinted here & there her text...
Changed Signals. But the new boom is much different from a year ago. It is almost revolutionary. In 1941 the big rush was for high-priced durable goods like radios, washing machines, ironers and refrigerators. Chief soft lines in good demand were silk stockings and woolens. Now almost everybody wants nondurable goods-dresses, cloth coats, shoes, hats and underwear. Other quick sellers: books, liquor, kitchenware, luxury lines like art work, antiques, silverware...
...ever spread itself so thin. And so in China his bailing slowed down and the water began to rise. Last week it had all but washed the Jap out of the coastal province of Chekiang, most densely populated, most modern and one of the most productive (wheat, beans, rice, silk) provinces of China. It was forcing him out of Kiangsi, west of Chekiang. And farther south he was slowly falling back on Canton. The Jap had his explanations, while China rejoiced at getting its military feet back on the fertile fields of Chekiang, birthplace of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...