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...Stung by the spectacle of the trudging blacks, many unshod and coatless, hundreds of gas-rationed white motorists offered them lifts, which the marchers resolutely refused. Other white well-wishers distributed lorryloads of fruit and drinks...
This double career began in 1919 when the late Director James Cruze, stung by criticisms that movie parsons never looked like anything but bad actors, asked Father Dodd's help. Father Dodd had been visiting his wife's family in Los Angeles, and was holding services in a rented store...
While the British-heavies were grounded, the R.A.F.'s sensational new bomber plane, the twin-engined, plywood Mosquito, stung the Reich by day & night with swift hit-&-run raids. On three successive nights last week Mosquitoes bombed Berlin by brightest moonlight; they made six raids against the Reich capital within eight days. From all these raids not a plane was lost; it was not until the sixth raid that Berlin gunners even scored a hit on a Mosquito. The plane they winged came back to England, flying at treetop height, with one motor shot...
...rules, though they are not yet in force, have already moved NBC to in corporate its second network (the Blue) separately and offer it for sale. They have improved network-affiliate relations, stung the industry into self-appraisal...
...hint of waxing Jap air power appeared in the South Pacific last week. For months only handfuls of Japanese raiders had stung Allied bases in New Guinea and the Solomons. Suddenly they swarmed out in force. Twenty-six bombers and eleven fighters struck at Wau, the airfield closest to Jap-held Salamaua. Forty raiders attacked Oro Bay south of Buna. Jap air strength, waning at the end of 1942, seemed to be surging back...