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...They took their time. . . . They swooped lower over the road, then swept steeply up into the clear blue sky. . . . Another few hundred yards along the road . . . nine bombers detached themselves lazily from the cloud of aircraft that now followed us almost like an escort. . . .Again there was the whistle of bombs, again the earth rocked as we threw ourselves into a ditch. . . . Fighters came in the wake of the bombers, with white smoke from spitting machine guns around their noses like halos, and the never-breaking whistle of bombs seemed to be all around us again...
...Denver staged a significant "launching" last week. At the Denver railroad yard, a pretty stenographer crashed a bottle of Pike's Peak snow water against the first of eight freight cars, and the "Good Ship Mountain Maid" rumbled westward-loaded with prefabricated steel for the hulls of naval escort ships. Same day, their keels were laid at California's Mare Island Navy Yard...
...reinforcements for Douglas MacArthur grew, military experts explained with weary patience that a relief force is out of the question. Transportation is the insoluble problem. Heavy bombers could fly the more than 1,000 miles from Java, the nearest Allied base to Manila Bay, but not the lighter escort planes that must accompany such an armada. Water-borne planes and troops would have little, if any, chance of running the Jap's naval gantlet. Said Deputy Chief of Staff Major General R. C. Moore to the House Appropriations Committee: "We could have a lot of them [bombers to MacArthur...
...buxom blonde Naziphile met on a sidewalk outside Manhattan's Café Royal, favorite downtown haunt of Jewish actors, writers, professionals. Inside, Columnist Thompson had been sitting with Austrian Refugee Economist Dr. Gustav Stolper. The anonymous blonde, laden with jewels and alcohol, had entered with an anonymous escort. "Heil Hitler!" barked the blonde presently. Nothing happened. Followed more heiling, loud comments on Jewish cooking. Followed the ejection of the blonde by the management. Followed Columnist Thompson...
...craft: destroyers, light cruisers and submarines. Any newsreader could note the effectiveness of the small U.S. Asiatic Fleet (with its supporting aircraft) in blasting Japanese convoys in the Strait of Macassar. He could note, too, the depressing fact that the Jap first approached vital Amboina with a piddling naval escort, got little or no naval opposition. Three cruisers, a dozen destroyers, even one aircraft carrier, would bolster U.S. and Dutch naval strength in the Indies, would help to stop the Jap short of Java...