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Three terse, vivid pages of description open the novel and set the scene. The main factory of Elmdown Aircraft Co. Ltd. comprises acres of windowless con crete camouflaged in a misty hollow in the South Midlands, ten miles from the nearest town. Says Priestley, "take away these drawing offices, these toolmakers' sheds, these long rows of machines, these workers on assembly, and within ten days the whip is at your back. All the brave, drilled men, willing to rush toward death, all the flags and national anthems, all the patriotic speeches, cannot rescue a people now. Without such factories...
...week wrote lively, beak-nosed Francis Henry Taylor, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the catalogue of a highly unusual art show. The first big collection of eyewitness war paintings ever shown while the war was still being fought hung in Washington's huge, windowless, marble National Gallery. The 125 paintings, later to tour the country, were part of a large-scale venture unique in unofficial war recording: since before Pearl Harbor, LIFE has been sending artists-all easel painters of standing-to camps, to war fronts and to sea as accredited war correspondents. Their...
...crucifix, a Spanish flag, and a Spanish poem adorn the walls of a stark, windowless room in Buenos Aires. Translated, the poem reads...
...wore them in their buttonholes, painted pictures of them. The daisy was their badge of allegiance to the House of Orange and exiled Princess Juliana, whose new daughter was named Margriet (Daisy). In Berlin the Sunday promenaders on Unter den Linden strolled past the bomb-pocked buildings and the windowless houses left by Allied bombers...
Last week, though its final tooling up was still months away, the vast, flat topped, windowless Marietta building stood about complete. Designed and constructed by slick Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., work began eleven months ago under the watchful eye of Army engineers. The ultimate in aircraft plants, the new factory will use thousands of machines and workers to turn out bombers -the type still a military secret...