Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called off its annual party for needy children (usually attended by 5,000): it could find no one to invite. In Fairview Village, a suburb of Cleveland, the community Christmas present would be a garbage collection: for lack of manpower there had been none for six weeks. In San Antonio's Mexican churches the five-hour Los Pastores, with its Indian ritual and dances, would be curtailed: the most agile dancers were dancing with bayonets...
...Army camps, it would be almost an overwhelming Christmas. The menus read like a meal for Gargantua. At San Antonio's mammoth cadet aviation center, incoming packages averaged 12,000 a day. In Portland, 20 carloads of parcel post, mostly for soldiers, stood idle for days while the postmaster looked for help to distribute it. To the training center at Indio, Calif, would go 300 movie belles to dance with the soldiers...
...possible Japanese attack, has been slow to take official sides in World War II; her careful neutrality moved Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles to make a pungent speech pointing out Axis espionage operations in Chile. If and when Chile breaks with the Axis, and her President Juan Antonio Rios makes the Washington visit which he postponed after the Welles speech, it will be the next to last step (the last: Argentina) in uniting the Western Hemisphere on our side...
...Third Army (headquarters San Antonio) under brilliant, German-born Lieut. General Walter Krueger, also a prime supervisor of maneuvers...
...Aleutians the P-38 has been in combat longest, with the most satisfactory results. Into San Antonio's municipal airport a 26-year-old pilot wearing a D.S.C., Captain George Laven Jr., flew his P-38 straight from three months in the Aleutians. Said he: "With a P-38 I would go into battle anywhere, under any conditions, with complete confidence that the Government has given me the best fighting equipment the world has to offer...