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Bouncing along in a bus through Arizona and New Mexico, it was all sunny skies and schoolgirl daydreams. Then the bus crossed into the Texas Panhandle, and she was gruffly ordered to get back in the rear where she belonged; the front seats were for white folks only. Bewildered and frightened, Florence got off, took the next bus back to the reservation...
...awards, made by Rear Admiral Morton Deyo and Major General Frank Keating, cited the professors, most of whom were physicists and chemists, for their valuable services to the United States during the-past...
...automobile clubs reported other gripes: angled windshields gave more vision in many directions, but they also admitted more glare. Short drivers had difficulty in seeing over the hood. Slanting rear windows looked pretty but they collected snow in winter. Almost all the new cars were bigger or more powerful than their earlier prototypes; they rode easier, had a faster pickup and greater speed. Compared to prewar models they looked like custom-built guided missiles. What was worrying their owners was the job of keeping them that...
Tell them to look closely at the desolation in the enemy's rear...
...each other, they raced through the crowd of commuters on the platform and loped down the stairway at the north end, two steps at a time. Nearly 40 of them squeezed into the first bus with the other passengers for Mamaroneck Avenue; those in back jammed open the rear door so that three more could slip in. The bus driver slid from his seat, ran back and plucked out the culprits like so many ripe peaches...