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...Polish roads are crammed with the piled carts of fleeing peasants. They pass Polish cavalry going against German motorized forces, horses dragging anti-tank guns. Across the fields refugees run desperately carrying whatever they can. Desperately they pile on trains. Sometimes German planes machine-gun the trains. There are gruesome shots of a young Polish woman clutching the train seat in her death spasm, a father shot through chest and abdomen sitting helplessly between his hopeless wife and frightened, bewildered little girl...
...stood up before a nostalgic crowd. Said he: "I was here when the first brick was put in and I am here now to take the first brick out." Then, with a crowbar he pried one from the façade of an imposing seven-story Moorish-Victorian pile...
Scattered from Philadelphia to San Francisco, the Brothers Rose meet only two or three times a year. Once they meet as stockholders, tot up the profits, split them five equal ways. Several times a week they meet by telephone, manage to pile up tolls of $10,000 a year in shop talk, family gossip...
...after a year or so of total war, Spain was the place to see it. A few miles from the Puerta del Sol, Madrid's hub, lie the desolate ruins of suburbs where fighting raged for more than two years. The $50,000,000 University City is a pile of rubble, and in West Park, where trenches still remain, only 33 trees are left standing. In Barcelona and Bilbao, Spain's first and second seaports, the destruction is almost as great. The Government has estimated that it will take at least ten years to carry out the reconstruction...
...Russia or the Gold Coast but is able to compete because it is free (by the U. S.-Cuban treaty of 1903) of the 2? duty on other imports of the metal, has lower shipping costs. Out of orders for the U. S. Government's manganese stock pile (now only 13 days' supply at the 1939 steel production rate) and for the steel industry's private hoard (15 months' supply), Cuban-American after a deficit of $22,059 m 1938, and three deficit quarters in 1939, turned the corner. Result: a 285% increase in gross sales...