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...secure, except for the last straggling Japs, hiding like animals in caves, waiting for the end. No longer did Jap fighters rise from Iwo's ashy black airdromes to hack at U.S. bombers on the Tokyo run. The Iwo airfield had already been a welcome haven for 30 crippled or fuel-shy 6-293 winging their way home to the Marianas from the fire-bombing of Japanese cities. The price the U.S. had paid for the desolate pinprick of land on the road to Japan had been bitterly high. But while they winced at the cost, military...
Buckeye State. Ohio swept out the Republican (Ed Schorr) machine, swept in a new kind of Democratic politician: gangling, idealistic, good-government crusader Frank Lausche, 48, mayor of Cleveland. A party independent, Frank Lausche beat a party hack, James Garfield ("Jovial Jim") Stewart, longtime mayor of Cincinnati and roly-poly, flag-waving, glad-handing master of political clich...
...eastern China's vitals, the armored worms of Japanese conquest gnawed greedily. Disintegration was apparently inevitable. When it came, it would take with it the system of air bases from which China once hoped to see U.S. and native airmen fly to beat down the defenses of .Formosa, hack deep into Japan's vital seaborne traffic...
...comfortable, book-lined Washington office, with fireplace, Berge works quietly, with few press conferences. Like Arnold, he is a pipe-puffer; he keeps twelve pipes cooling in his desk drawer. In the next year, he expects to hack at cartels with another batch of indictments...
...time the sucker has spent up to a hundred dollars, he usually gets tired and quits. For his money he has received a tune any hack composer could turn out for $5, a printing job worth $7.50, a cheap $1 acetate recording...