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...Santa Fe's stainless steel El Capitan, an all-coach express of 16 cars, glittered eastward at 90 m.p.h. on the last leg of the run from Los Angeles. It was 5:40 a.m., and Chicago was only 148 miles away. On an adjoining track, also Chicago-bound, the slower Kansas City Chief clicked along at a modest 65. In both trains, as they raced side by side near Monica, Ill., dawn and restlessness had prodded light sleepers into wakefulness. Washrooms were crowded with women prettying their faces and men shaving...
...undulating dairylands from Wisconsin eastward, the world's healthiest cows placidly ruminated the rich grass which magically replenished their udders faster than the nation could consume the flow of milk and cream. It was corn-cultivating and hog-fattening time in the black-soiled heartland fed by the Mississippi and her tributaries. In Iowa, the corn already stretched six inches toward the Midwestern sky, was building toward another big crop...
Gradually, the swarming Puerto Ricans pushed the Negroes north, the Italians eastward. They expanded across the top of Central Park, crept down the other side. Other pockets established themselves on the lower East Side, in Brooklyn and The Bronx...
Take a Continent. Warming to his subject, he told just how the U.S. might attack the U.S.S.R. All that is necessary, he said, is to explode large hydrogen bombs on a line extending north & south across Europe. The radioactivity "would be carried eastward by the winds, destroying all life within a strip 1,500 miles wide, extending from Leningrad to Odessa, and 3,000 miles deep, extending from Prague to the Ural Mountains...
Brown also described how the U.S.S.R. might attack the U.S. The bombs could be exploded in the Pacific, 1,000 miles west of California. Their radioactivity, drifting eastward, would lawnmower the whole U.S., reaching and sterilizing New York in about five days...