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Around the time of the Civil War, Nevada's Virginia City, site of the fabulous Comstock Lode, was the wildest, hell-roaringest mining town in the world. Men who arrived haggard, filthy and penniless soon made thousands of dollars a week from the blue-black silver ore, gorged themselves on oysters, caviar, champagne. The streets thundered all night with brawling, boozing, wenching. Sam Brown, one of the first "bad men" of the old West, literally carved a man to pieces with his bowie knife, went to sleep on a table while his awed companions collected and removed the fragments...
Overworked John R. Steelman, chief of the U. S. Conciliation Service, returned to Washington at week's end, red-eyed and haggard after a trip to Milwaukee. He poured a tale of woe into the ear of his boss, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. What he said was private...
...time a rescue ship had picked up the tired, haggard little colony, taken them safely on to Australia, the garbled accounts had begun to make sense. They traced the voracious course of an armed Nazi merchantman with its prison and supply ships, the Manyo Maru and the Tokyo Maru, which had been shooting up Pacific shipping lanes for weeks, bagging at least ten New Zealand, British, French and Norwegian vessels...
...demolition charges tore down through apartment buildings, workers' houses, mostly again in the southeastern quarters where lie huge Tempelhof Airport and some of Berlin's main food, fuel, raw-material supply lines. As in London, subway service was disrupted. Berlin learned about sleepless nights and haggard mornings-after-and the High Command had some tall explaining...
...each (benefit of the Red Cross), 40 of the pictures were snapped up the first day. They were striking evidence of what Manhattan youngsters now think about. Nearly all showed soldiers fighting in trenches, parachute troops dropping out of the sky, cities in flames, bombs bursting in air, haggard women crying out against war. Eleanor Silverman, 9, was asked why she chose as her subject the bombing of a city (see cut). She replied simply, "To show people what war is like...