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While insisting that there must be some 'supervision over public morals, Judge Adlow is inclined to belittle the book-banning art as it has recently found realization in the Hub...
Virgil and the Colonels. Kweilin, with nearby Liuchow, forms the hub of southeast China's highways and railroads. Refugees were rushing in like animals before a forest fire. The 16 Americans among the thousands of fleeing Chinese went methodically to work mining road junctions, digging cavities under bridges, under abutments in the sides of denies...
Twelve to 15 new express highways, radiating from downtown Boston, are among the professors' suggestions for improving upon Boston's limited accessibility by automobile. They place increasing emphasis on more and better highways as the key to the Hub's transportation difficulties, making no additions to the city's repaid transit system...
Politically, sentimentally, in prestige, Paris would be a tremendous victory. But militarily, Paris was a tactical objective, already partly taken. Paris was the hub from which rail and road spokes radiated all over northern France; to the south, west and northwest most of them had already been cut. Its further importance was that it was a center of wire communications and administration, a storehouse of German arms. Its ring of airfields could be quickly put to Allied use. But Paris as a strictly military victory was overshadowed by one behind it and one beyond...
...hub of the wheel," reports Pertinax, "the Havas Agency handed out advertising contracts. And not merely advertising contracts but the bounty of such gentry whose reputations needed currycombing. . . . The major Paris and provincial newspapers - some ten at most -got the lion's share. The rest plotted and scuffled to get larger cuts...