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Bricks & Stripes. In Markowitz' saloon in Kansas City a laundry-truck driver sipped a beer. What did he think about the world? "You can have it," he said. "It's all hurrah for me and the hell with...
...have seen . . . workers parading along the streets and shouting, 'We want an American Perón!' . . . Charcoal or chalk signs reading 'Hurrah Perón' and 'Up Perón' are a common sight...
Voices from the back benches: "Tres bien pour la petite difference] Hurrah for the little difference!" French Assembly members, male & female, cheered lustily...
Suddenly Manila's unkempt streets swarmed with men, women & children, shouting "Veektory!" and "Mabuhay!" -the Tagalog "Hurrah!" From the little the Japs had left them, from the fullness of their hearts, the Filipinos pressed gifts on their deliverers. A small boy darted out to hand a precious egg to one startled American. Other Manilans broke into a Jap-operated brewery, lavished bottles of beer on their liberators. One gaunt, toothless, ragged woman had nothing to give. But she hobbled out to catch and kiss the hand of an embarrassed colonel. She sobbed: "God bless you, sir! God bless...
Pilots and air crews drew the public cheers for the dramatic Saipan-based B-29 bombings of Japan. But airmen themselves had a special hurrah for the prop men of the show, the Army's aviation engineers. In building bases for the Superforts, they had performed one of the great engineering feats of World...