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...Travel advertising took a sudden, self-conscious spurt, but had a frustrated tone. Lake George, N.Y. beckoned soothingly: "Everything within easy walking distance . . . you don't need a car." Sea Island, Ga. boasted: "No rationing of cool sea breezes." The Denver Convention & Visitors' Bureau: ". . . Thousands of young Americans training in and near Denver say they're coming back, when their job is done. . . ." "If," said the Mexican Tourist Association, "you plan to visit your boy in camp in the Southwest. . . ." La Province de Québec described its humming war plants, its R.C.A.F. training fields, shrugged: "Your...
...plants too are bombed & bombed again. But the weapons will be late. They will be fewer. At some as yet undetermined point in this cycle of loss, they will be too late and too few. The coming of that point, with its attendant disintegration within Germany, may cause a sudden collapse of the Axis. If not, this war will be won as other wars have been won, by battle in Russia and on the invasion fronts of Europe...
...sudden fist fight touched it off, sent fighting, cursing whites and Negroes battling across the bridge, spilling through the city. Like wildfire, the rioting spread to "Paradise Valley," Detroit's downtown Negro section, washed over Woodward Avenue, Detroit's main street. Gangs of whites and Negroes roved the streets, smashing windows, tipping cars, looting stores, seizing guns and ammunition in pawnshops. Courageously Negro leaders toured the Valley in sound cars. But their pleas for peace were drowned by jeers...
...same meeting spoke up the Anglican Church's second-ranking prelate, Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York: "The condition of many of the children from the large industrial areas is a disgrace to our civilization* Evacuation has thrown a sudden searchlight on the evils of which the majority of citizens are ignorant. It showed that there still exists a submerged tenth over which squalor, ignorance and vice reign supreme...
...either not been informed of the surrender or could not see their own signals through Pantelleria's shroud of brushwood smoke. The landing party herded together the first 8,000 bomb-dizzy troops while 50 German dive-bombers, sneaking south from Sicily in the hope of a sudden kill, were slapped about by Allied fighters...