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Thirty thousand U.S. workmen, employed by the big Lockheed airplane factory at Burbank, Calif., waited in the field beside the plant. In white shirts, bareheaded in the California noonday sun, they watched with the intent, quizzical, unfathomable expressions of U.S. workmen in a crowd. On the platform, Lord Halifax finished his brief speech of thanks to the men for the production of planes for Britain...
...Matsumoto-san, the Japanese man-in-the-street, shaves in the morning with a dull razor (blades are scarce), rides to work on an overcrowded charcoal-burning bus (motor fuel is rationed), climbs long flights of stairs to his office (electricity for elevators is no longer available), eats his noonday meal,(after showing his rice ration card) and goes home to bed without even the comfort of his much-loved steaming hot-water bath (charcoal is scarce); and wonders about glory...
When that hot noonday came to The Netherlands East Indies last week, Netherlands. British and U.S. officialdom held its breath. Just previously Economics Minister van Mook had given the Japanese a ten-page answer to their demands. It was said to state in effect that The Nether lands East Indies would willingly continue trade relations with Japan on the basis of the annual average trade for the past five years. By inference this meant Japan would not get increased war materials either to use itself or to send to its Axis partners...
...impressive ceremony. The old town of narrow streets and pleasant front yards, the noonday sun bright on the shiny cars, on the people, as dressed up to see the President as if they were going to church-all this made a background for the President's words, as fitting as the words themselves. From Charlottesville, where he had been resting in "Pa" Watson's three-roomed guest house, the President had motored along the ridges above the Shenandoah Valley, through miles of green pine and spruce, past miles of mountain laurel and white dogwood. At the dead...
Meanwhile music had been mobilized as a national morale builder. In London, shilling concerts organized by Pianist Myra Hess in the National Gallery (de nuded of its pictures) still attracted 500 to 1,500 people every noonday. Plodding old Sir Henry Wood began his 46th-and-farewell year as conductor of the Promenade Concerts of the London Symphony...