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Ages & ages ago, the Snow God "Kun" destroyed all life on earth, and only the ill-tempered "supaya" (devils) lived to roam the highlands of Bolivia. The" Pacha-Camaj" (Gods of Fertility) then sent down their own sons, the "Paka-Jakes" (Eagle Men), to create a new race of their beloved Aymara people, all of whom had been snowed under by Kun. The Paka-Jakes settled on the land around holy Lake Titicaca, recreated the Aymaras, and named the province Pacajes after themselves...
Actually he was on his way, at the moment, to the Navy's new training station at Idaho's beautiful Lake Pend d'Oreille. There, in the midst of pine forests where bear and deer roam wild, he examined the bright new barracks and the tent city of 20,000 construction workers...
...corner. The nation has let experienced farm hands follow the lure of higher wages to the cities, to become rank apprentices at a new trade. It has let draft boards pluck skilled and infinitely precious war workers from industry. It has let the Navy's busy recruiting trucks roam the nation, picking and choosing, skimming off the cream of American manpower with hardly a thought to national policy. Now the month of crisis is at hand...
...business section is an ear-shattering din of crawling tanks, trains, of street cars, lorries, motorcycles, marching men and policemen's whistles. Newly arrived troops queue up to register at various headquarters before going to the front. If they have spare time-and usually they have not-they roam into music shops to have balalaikas repaired or buy new ones, get shaved by women barbers, watch the pretty girls, have their nails manicured, or read the latest newspapers slapped on billboards. Above the sound and fury are the protecting wings of Red Air Force bombers and fighters...
...blockade Europe until Hitler ran out of oil. Six months later the United Nations have largely lost control of the Mediterranean, the eastern part of the Indian Ocean, a good part of the Pacific (the part where rubber came from). They have even had to permit the enemy to roam the Atlantic coastal waters of the continental U.S. They face the grim possibility that the Near East may fall to the Germans and India to the Japs-a juncture which would end any blockade for good...