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Signs of Peace. There were already other signs that peace was at hand. In Manhattan last week, 50,000 Western Union employees tore up their 25? demands, accepted a 5? "downpayment" raise. The oldest dispute in the nation was finally settled: on the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, which had suffered more than five years of wrangling, Government seizure and bloodshed, culminating in the murder of President George McNear Jr. (TIME, March...
After victory in 1918, the British tore down the fortifications, but in spite of the protests of the proud, German-hating Frisians who lived on the island, Helgoland was left to Germany. By 1936, Hitler's tractors and bulldozers had moved in. Helgoland's receding shores (in 300 years four-fifths of the island had washed away) were buttressed with granite and bound with huge chains. Submarine pens with walls twelve feet thick, harbors, and eight miles of tunnels were built...
...town's power went dead. In the uncertain light of car headlights and flashlights, in the drenching rain, in the flickering light of the fires which broke out, Woodward's citizens tore at the debris of their shattered homes, looking for wives, children, husbands. One-third of the town had been destroyed. Three thousand were homeless. Mrs. Grim and 90 others were dead...
...preferential position of one faith: "This reminds me of the old man in Florence who had two mistresses, one young and the other old. The man's hair was partly black, partly grey. Each of his mistresses wanted him completely for herself. So the young mistress tore out all his grey hair, while the old one tore out all the black. The poor man's head of course was as bald as this Constitution's promises are empty...
...Students were very excited when the last shipment of W.S.S.F. food came to the university," she recalled. "I remember how they tore open the packages immediately, and drank evaporated milk while the lecturer was talking...