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The thin man stood by the window, fingering a cigaret, inhaling smoke steadily in long, deep drags, his hot brown eyes staring across Michigan Boulevard's river of traffic, across the concrete esplanade that bridges the railroad tracks, and out to the blue peace of Lake Michigan.
"But as the breeze did not drop, and for the first time on our voyage we experienced the effect of pitching and rolling combined, a great silence fell upon the ship. . . . The little Niger hippopotamus ... lay down with his head flat on the deck, and ceased to think. His great...
Last week, for the second time in history, U. S. business found itself face to face with the imminent necessity for industrial mobilization. The shape of that mobilization, already forming in the mind of Franklin Roosevelt, had still to be revealed; but many a businessman, mindful of the fact history...
The Army got a good look at Louisiana: moss, bats, and dark, stagnant pools in forests of oak and pine; Negroes, staring wall-eyed from weather-grey shacks; from shacks no better, poor whites whose grand pappies saw the Confederates run the Yanks off this same land; a new oil...
There were several reasons for this uneasiness: 1) World War II had come nearer the U. S. than ever before; 2) flounderings, charges and admissions of inefficiency in London (see p. 54); 3) confusing, conflicting statements by U. S. naval and military men about plane production capacities, aircraft effectiveness, general...