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Sober satisfaction is what most citizens felt with their Congress-which seemed to have been spiritually reborn. None were more pleased than most of the adventuresome 2,500,000 youngsters now eligible for Armageddon. Many (one estimate: 400,000) already were in the armed forces. Many more this week were storming recruiting centers to enlist, inspired more by knowing this is a young man's war than fearing the draft...
...archskeptic, one Hyacinthe de Lafite, a neighborhood patrician. In his youth, an arrogant atheist" individualist-poet, he had not bothered even to visit the newborn, crowded shrine. But now in his old age he confronts in Lourdes's hospital the full weight of disease and death, and is reborn into the mysteries of his childhood. As Lafite, a cancer pregnant in his throat and his weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille which now shields the wet stones of the grotto, Werfel ceases to be the reverent and grateful craftsman...
Matthews quoted one estimate that there are 250,000 German troops scattered throughout Italy, tampering with internal Government offices, and prepared to crush uprisings. Naples "swarms" with Nazi troops. So embittered are the Sicilians that the notorious "Black Hand" has been reborn, leaves its mark on the knifed throats of German soldiers...
This end meant also a beginning, of something greater than anything Detroit has seen in the 40-odd years of the motor industry. The industry had literally died and was being reborn-new, bigger, and completely different...
...list of U.S. industries born or reborn out of wartime stress will soon be added one of the most obscure and unsuccessful of all: diamond mining. For a modest $175,000 Arkansas Diamond Corp. last fortnight sold its long-idle field in Pike County, only one in the U.S. ever developed commercially. The buyer: an anonymous Chicago syndicate which hopes that wartime demand for industrial diamonds (up 60%) and wartime prices (up 20-70%) will enable it to succeed where others long have failed...