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...travel far on the Coast without becoming indoctrinated with the prevalent vigorous business optimism. Not even the difficulties of reconversion or the current labor-management disputes seem to dent it. In San Francisco, as elsewhere along the Coast, we talked to as many people as possible to try to hear all sides of the West Coast viewpoint. In the process we also had a chance to talk with Time Inc.'s newsmen who, as I told you sometime ago, have been multiplying out there since we established our first Pacific Coast bureau in San Francisco 11 years ago. There...
...were out. Swegan started the barrage by beating out a hard hit ball to deep second. Allen got hold of the ball and sent a long hit down the left field line good for two bases, the only extra-base hit of the afternoon; Roche came in to dent the plate on the hit. Wallace sent Allen to third when he got his second hit of the game, a short line drive that dropped just in front of the left fielder. Eckenroth looked at two strikes and then hit a hard ball back of second, and it looked like...
City officials have done what they could. They condemned the sale of fresh fruits (which might carry the bacteria), dumped boatloads of peaches in the river, where children drowned diving for them. They made a dent in garbage and "night soil" accumulations by having laborers lug the filth away on foot. They appropriated over $2,000,000 for burying corpses which had been left to decompose. They began construction of a 6,000-ton reservoir...
...impossible for him to find anyone whom he could call a friend. The one attempt he had made at approaching the man across the hall had been coldly, yet courtesouly, rebuffed with a short "Have we been introduced?" . . . The youth began to despair of ever making the slightest dent in campus affairs or being elected to the Swift Custard Institute of 1776." --Yale News Digest...
China-Burma-India Theater will be completely outfitted on the Continent, from mess kits to tanks. But this will make only a sizable dent in the enormous store of materiel...