Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dinner with the Marshal. As I write this dispatch, sitting on the grass with my typewriter on my knees, I can gaze at the deep perpendicular cleft cut in the huge rock where I had dinner with Marshal Tito last night...
...word. Well, I entered Partisan territory ten miles behind the fighting line, traveled 25 miles in an automobile, saw a Partisan train, and visited the last session of the Anti-Fascist Youth Congress. Now three barefoot urchins are arranging a bouquet of cherry blossoms by a pool under a huge walnut tree. This is liberated enough...
...roar could be heard for several miles, as huge cakes of ice broke apart, flapped up, stood on edge, ground into each other, crashed and thundered. Most of the 300 citizens (mostly Indians) of Nenana, Alaska, made for the river, to watch a fragile candy-striped tripod anchored in the ice. There was $125,000 riding on that little pole, in bets from soldiers and sourdoughs all over Alaska...
...tickets, go to Government movie theaters. Druggists, doctors, lawyers, justices of the peace, hundreds of Government employes declined to work. Railroad workers struck. The schools, the National University were closed; both students and staff stayed away. Priests supported the movement. A mass for the souls of the executed drew huge crowds, was stopped by police...
...more than two years, the biggest U.S. drug manufacturer, Sterling Drug Inc., has been purging itself of its prewar Germanic taint by flooding Latin America, where it used to act as agent for huge I. G. Farbenindustrie, with strictly U.S. drugs. In so doing, it: 1) surprised itself by making a lot of money (over $700,000 last year, almost 10% of its total net income); 2) became a potent agent in U.S. economic warfare. Starting from 'scratch on aspirin, for example - which used to be a $3,500,000-a-year I. G. business - Sterling has now developed...