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...Broadway, and in Manhattan's garment district, where the crowds were thickest, the ticker tape fell, confetti and torn telephone books swirled down from the windows, pasting the wet streets with wastepaper. The parade had lasted four hours. New York police chiefs estimated the crowd at from...
...northeast Greece the beaten Bulgarians began to withdraw from Thrace in answer to Allied demands. Off western Greece the British walked onto the island of Corfu, its once-green hills and flowered meadows torn by incessant bombing. Not a shot was fired...
...make this sentence stick as something more than a sentence torn out of context, Candidate Dewey pointed out that in traveling "down that New Deal road" there are now "55 Government corporations arid credit agencies with net assets of $27,000,000,000," that the Government now owns or operates one-fifth of all the manufacturing plants in the U.S. (Actually, most of these are war plants.) Governor Dewey charged that thus "little by little, the New Deal is developing its own form of corporate state." That, said Candidate Dewey, was why Comrade Browder favors Term IV -that...
Pablo Picasso announced that he had joined the French Communist Party, two days later learned that 15 of his sensationally experimental paintings (on exhibition at the annual Salon d'Automne) had been torn down by a Parisian mob, which fled in true Parisian style before the police could identify anybody...
...business to be still alive : when Captain W. W. Wilson of the Royal Army Medical Corps first saw her, she had been shot in the abdomen eight days before and the wide wound, leaking intestinal contents, was untended except for a packing of tow, a dressing of mud and torn clothing. Ordinarily, such an untreated wound means peritonitis (infection of the abdominal lining) and almost inevitable death. Yet the girl had not even a fever...