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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Building, a temporary warren built during World War I. Long ago a piece of land next to the Naval Hospital was earmarked for a great new War Department building, and the first building was already complete and occupied. But last month, impatient to get all its workers under one roof, the War Department got Congressional approval for a $35,000,000, 35-acre structure to be built at once on the Arlington lowlands across the Potomac...
Though the Nazi wave of war has flooded Norway, the Norwegian Legation in Washington is not submerged. In fact, the Legation is such a busy little island that last week it dedicated a new wing. On the Legation roof, while such distinguished guests as Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky, OPM's Big Bill Knudsen, A.F. of L.'s Little Bill Green looked on, Crown Princess Martha raised a Norwegian flag, in a rich, clear soprano led the guests as they sang Norway's National Anthem...
...cost of $3,500, Postmaster General Brown amused the U.S. by turning in his official Cabinet automobile, for a second model with a higher roof so that he could get in & out without crushing...
They flew in, skimming the roof tops. One pilot found that the only way to reach his target was between a high radio mast on the quay and the ship's mast. "I had to bank to port to get between them and while still at an angle of 45° we threw bombs at the ship's side, one at least hitting the ship with a smack." Still hedgehopping, the attackers fled, leaving growing clouds of smoke rising from the ships at the wharves...
When Father Chisholm reached Pai-tan, he found "an acre of deserted earth, sun-scorched, gullied by the rains. ... At one end stood the remnants of a mud-brick chapel, the roof blown off, one wall collapsed, the others crumbling. Alongside lay a mass of caved-in rubble which might once have been a house." "Here, Father," said one of the only two rice-Christians left of the congregation, "is the mission...