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...clock in the morning, the 800,000 printed covers were just so much waste paper. The Emir plates had been torn off the press. The Stalin-Timoshenko cover plates had been bolted on in their place, a special extra crew of press men had been routed out of bed to come down and rush the makeready, and a complete foundry force had been summoned by telephone to make 210 additional press plates on Sunday double time to make it possible to print the Timoshenko cover 16 up-65,000 an hour...
...counted as effective in these maneuvers). As Kidwell disappeared around the bend they resighted their gun to point at the woods across the road. The trouble would probably come from there. It did, within two minutes, heralded by the splintering crash of fences, the shrieking whine of green trees torn apart...
Brooklyn's Plymouth Church is also a downtown rather than a neighborhood church. The big old homes of the district it serves-the Heights overlooking the bay and the Manhattan financial center-have been converted into small apartments or torn down to make room for shops. The church today has 1,200 members, but it spends only $34,000 a year on upkeep and good works. Said Dr. Fifield last week of his new parish: "It should be the beacon for all our churches in America. At present...
...Jews, Germans, Poles, Czechs, Serbs, Russians (White & Red), Spaniards (Republican & Francoist), Italians, Croats, Ukrainians, Bulgarians and Argentines, who were once united in a brotherhood of opposition to the cotton companies, have been torn apart by Nazi propaganda. The German organization, Opferring, enrolls not only Germans but Argentines, Poles, Ukrainians, Slovaks and Russians. The German Winterhilfe, for needy German colonists, gives very real help to farmers and croppers of other races. So people who once had nothing but dislike for the Nazi regime are beginning to say publicly that Hitler must be a great humanitarian because he helps people...
They amassed old books, rifles, farm tools, wagons, toys, wax fruit, chamber pots. They salvaged the whole floor of a barn because members of an early German-American sect had knelt on its boards to pray. When a neighboring hotel was torn down, Henner and George Landis bought its whole barroom. But Henner and George Landis were not antique dealers, never sold so much as a darning needle. They just collected things as a hobby...