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...thinking and the greatest production dream in U.S. history. It multiplied astronomically impossible figures by five and hoped that each figure would show up as something hard, tangible, useful or deadly: a tank, a gun, a ship, a plane, a truck, a tent, a uniform, a mess kit, a blanket, a parachute, a monkey wrench, a lathe, a screw...
...covered with warm air and fog like a blanket-a blanket with a hole in it, for there were the usual December snows in the Colorado Rockies. All U.S. weathermen could say was: "If there is any good explanation for such weather at this time of the year, we'd like to have it." The ancients would not have been at such a loss. They would probably have seen in it an omen of world-shaking events...
Some of the specific requests already received, besides the blanket appeal of the Red Cross for volunteers at 18 Brattle Street, Include a call for someone to instruct sailors in marine Diesel engines of the Cooper-Bessemen type; a tutor in fine arts for a member of the Coast Guard; and students with a knowledge of shorthand, radio, mathematics or physics
...weather which required this camouflage was steadily worsening. According to almanac reckoning, winter officially began in the Moscow area last week. Until mid-April the ground will now be under a blanket of snow, the earth helpfully hard. To Marshal von Bock's men winter will be grim, but not deadly. The average temperature for January, the coldest month...
...moral values," says Chamberlin, "there has been a tremendous increase in state sponsored inhumanity . . . imprisonment and execution without trial, torture of political dissidents, holding of relatives as hostages, outlawry of whole classes and races." Possibly more sinister is the silence with which the totalitarian Governments have been able to blanket their total atrocities...