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...line connecting central Sverdlov Square with the industrial area close to the immense Stalin auto plant, long ago converted to war production. Moscow's palatial Metro, now about ten miles long, remains at once a symbol of the brave new world the Russians hope to build, and a godsend to factory workers who save two hours daily getting to & from their eleven-hour shifts...
...have a short-wave battery radio set which has been a Godsend here in the woods. For the past four or five evenings KGEI has been booming through. I have heard Bing Crosby, THE MARCH OF TIME, Charlie McCarthy and Jack Benny. A funny thing happened the other evening while I was listening to THE MARCH OF TIME. One of the episodes purported to depict an incident in the front lines here in Bataan. There was a sound effect of firing and one of the characters said: "Here they come!" Just at that minute a flight of dive-bombers opened...
...President. He even looks the part. Iron-grey, over six feet tall, lean, muscular, cold, with a hawk nose, and down-slanting heavy brows that are a cartoonist's godsend, he looks, as he is, a personification of stubborn and violent will. Characteristic was his reply, as President-elect, to banqueting businessmen who proposed certain Governmental measures: "Don't advise me, I prefer to be wrong alone...
Even among the exuberant political beards of France, the beard of Socialist René Marx Dormoy was something special. Its grizzled fullness was a godsend to cartoonists in the days of the Popular Front, when Dormoy as Minister of the Interior was making things hot for the Croix de Feu and the Cagoulards (Hooded Ones), a reactionary Gallic Ku Klux Klan...
...these things presaged a change in the Communist Party Line, then Germany's attack on Russia was a godsend to U. S. labor. For it will mean the end of deliberately stirred up strikes and intentionally prolonged disputes which have taxed the patience of Government, the public and labor leaders themselves, disrupted labor's ranks...