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...mangy Hawaiian port of Kahului, a Japanese submarine crept closer toward shore in the dusk. A gun crew swarmed from her conning tower and gathered about the deck gun. Kahului, 90 miles by airline from Honolulu on the island of Maul, was going to get its first taste...
...premeditated murder masked by a toothy smile. The Nation had taken a heavy blow. The casualties crept from rumor into uglier-rumor: hundreds on hundreds of Americans had died bomb-quick, or were dying, bed-slow...
...morning of Armistice Day, Colmar, Alsace, beheld a strange parade. Hundreds of snails crept through the streets. They were smeared under the wheels of traffic; they squished under the boots of Nazi troops, who finally pressed snickering Frenchmen into service as street cleaners. Across the shell of every snail was painted the red, white & blue of the Tricolor...
...friend of the Maybricks, who telegraphed to Brother Michael Maybrick, a London songwriter: "COME AT ONCE; STRANGE THINGS GOING ON HERE." The nurse's suspicions had been aroused by the sight of Florrie Maybrick soaking flypapers in water. The flypapers contained arsenic. Through the servants' quarters crept the horrified conviction that Florrie was poisoning her husband. In the parlor, Brothers Michael and Edwin whispered together, looked askance at the sister-in-law they had never accepted...
...Nova Scotia-born, law-trained Minister of Finance James Lorimer Ilsley it was no surprise that on Sept. i clothing prices had crept up 17%, food prices 24% above pre-war levels. (U.S. rises 7% and 18% in the same period.) Minister Ilsley and his special board of consulting economists had an eye out for just such inflationary storm warnings, had a storm cellar ready. This month they laid their economic plans before Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his full Cabinet...