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...Army & Navy could not bring themselves to Mr. May's cocky pitch. In Russia, Africa, China and in the Battle of the Atlantic, the United Nations waited in the maw of danger...
China's news seemed to be all bad. In the eastern theater, in Chekiang Province, where the Japanese Army wants to seize airfield's within reach of Japan and Formosa, Japanese reinforcements poured in from east, north and southeast, forming a huge, closing maw. A new spearhead pushed north from the Canton area. China's Chekiang-Kiangsi and Hankow-Canton railroads were eaten up mile by hard-fought mile. Yet Chiang was optimistic...
...spur line into the parched maw of Free China would solve the problem of getting help to Chiang Kai-shek-if he was still there when the spur was built...
...carried advertising, but not for revenue only. The revenue, in fact, was so much fungus. Every centime which The Stars and Stripes took in -and it took in 50 of them per copy, one dime American -vanished eventually into the unheeding maw of the United States Treasury. We carried advertising solely in order that The Stars and Stripes would look like what it was -a newspaper...
...said Paw, "he done the handsome thing by you just like I did by your maw when Rinno was born. What are you so wrought up about? You'll make him feel he ain't welcome. You work on the WP & A?" Paw asked the boy. "Well this is like meeting an old friend. We're all just WP & A folks here. . . . You and Virginia kin have the bed in the corner all to yourselves...