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...nation, Minister of Home Security Herbert Morrison roundly condemned "irresponsible property owners" who had not even placed watchers over their own premises and announced that if necessary the Government would use compulsion to acquire an adequate number of spotters. Incendiaries, he emphasized, can be easily extinguished with sand or removed, and this work must be done by civilians in order to leave the fire brigades free to fight bigger blazes. Boy Scouts 15 and 16 years old were mobilized last week as spotters and women were also asked to join the new organization known as "Firebomb Fighters." "Fighting firebombs...
Their big tanks raced forward through clouds of sand, to the southwest of the city. Sappers had blown earth into the tank traps, cut the thinly strung wire, exploded the land mines with flung stones...
Enter R. N. As the British land forces, stung by bitter winds and flying sand, burrowed into the wadi for the night, the Royal Navy began its part. In towards the shore slipped the monitor Terror, with her the river gunboats Ladybird* and Aphis. At extreme range the Terror's big 15-inchers opened up, started chewing at the cliffs where Italian batteries were dug in. Steadily the little flotilla moved closer, bringing smaller guns into action. Within two hours the main line of the battle fleet had moved into position and started pumping shells in a whistling stream...
...Douglases live in an apartment over the Busy Bee Beauty shop, in Manhattan. On weekends, keeping an eye out for possible customers, they began puttering around the creek. One day they had a nasty shock. Annsville Creek, starts in a sand and gravel pit, flows under a railroad bridge and into the Hudson River. The Douglases discovered that Dottle's cabin was too high to get under the bridge...
ROMANTIC REBEL, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GEORGE SAND-Felizia Seyd-Viking...