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But they had earned their pay-$600 a month plus a $500 bonus for every Jap shot down. In Kunming they could spend it easily-for cigarets at $2.80 a pack, for Scotch at $45 a bottle, for cheese at $12 a pound, for tooth paste at $4 a tube...
News of Maryknollers in the Orient has shrunk to a trickle since Dec. 7. But cables received early this month reported that:
General MacArthur, who has no mania for secrecy, soon dynamited the worst censorship log jams. Then the correspondents were left to fight the battle of transmission. Before the war the South Pacific had eight cables, several big radio stations. Only two cables remain, one of them a slow, alternate route...
Thus, day after dreary day, Douglas MacArthur cheered his tired men. He himself must have been sustained by the growing realization that he was a national hero. Cables and radio messages of congratulations continued to pour in last week-from the workers at the Picatinny Arsenal. Dover, N.J.; from veterans...
¶In Norway, whose shipyard and factory workers are masters of the invisible slowdown, hate erupted like hot lava when Vidkun Quisling was installed as puppet Premier. Ready for action stood German troops with fixed bayonets, German tanks with troops inside. Nevertheless, two railway stations and the National Theater in...