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...parachute troops poured down, sometimes disguised as French peasants, even as women, to put the torch to villages in the Allies' rear areas. German motorcycle troops with armored breastplates and flame-throwing tanks with crews in suits of asbestos made incursions behind the French lines. The Germans used cardboard shapes to decoy bombing attacks to fake airfields, and dummy superstructures to make trucks and light tanks look like heavy tanks. They mixed delayed action bombs with their contact bombs, so that even duds caused terror. German bombers scoured the skies over Allied columns moving along highways, coming down...
...Yugoslavia was scared stiff. Both Germany and Italy had troops massed near her frontiers (300,000 Italians were reported concentrated north of Fiume). Police uncovered an arsenal in a German cardboard factory. An Italian-Yugoslav commission investigated the death of one Italian soldier and the wounding of three others when Italian troops tried to disarm a Yugoslav sergeant on Yugoslav soil. The Italians said they thought the sergeant was in Italy...
Salemites strolling past the corner of State & Commercial Streets one day last week stared sorrowfully at cardboard placards in the arched windows of the old Salem, Ore. firm of Ladd & Bush, Bankers...
...night Coffee Pot, the Metropolitan Museum, the play brightly wanders all around the town-without ever really getting inside it. Its people-the opportunist and the radical, the glamor girl and the little old lady, the sailor and the floozy (Ann Thomas)-are all cut out of cardboard. Only Rice's bitter, cynical, wisecracking producer walks on his own legs, and even he is stagy...
...built a home in Celina, 15 miles west of Star Point; another at Carthage; a three-story brick business block which Celina still calls "the skyscraper." But to the end of his life he would go off to Florida for the winter with all his clothes in a cardboard valise, a battered tin cup tied to the handle, riding the caboose with the brakemen...