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...Make dugout canoes like those of Pacific islanders...
...regular bombing days," he wrote, "you get a few minutes' warning from a loud-sounding siren, or from the ring of steel, or from men beating pots & pans. Sometimes we sense planes coming before the alarm sounds. Then a shout echoes from dugout to dugout: 'Tojo's coming...
...first hostile bullets of his life scared him badly. Last week, 38 years later, General Douglas MacArthur was back in the Philippines fighting the toughest battle of his life. But he was not scared. As the bombs whistled down near him, an orderly tried to shoo him to a dugout. "Give me a cigaret, Eddie," said MacArthur, and went on watching...
There was a repetition, though less serious, of the city's mass stifling (TIME, June 16). This time a direct hit closed one entrance to a dugout while incendiary fumes blocked the other. Estimated dead...
...Chinese spirit is more durable than brick and mortar. The adaptable citizens of Chungking immediately started enlarging dugouts, so that work could be carried on there. Mass evacuations to the country began. The no-immediate-danger signal was sounded sooner, so that dugout denizens could get more air. Construction began on a new Press Hostel...