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...tide of war turned, he wrote again with his old vigor. The country felt his weight until he died. Canada had long offered him honors: a Cabinet post, appointment as first Minister to Washington, a knighthood. Dafoe had said: "Me a knight? Why, I tend my own furnace and shovel snow off my porch." He would, he said, remain a writing man. A writing man he died...
...rolling country near Jackson, Miss., 1,500 German prisoners of war were busy with pick & shovel. They heaped big mounds of earth, dug trenches and excavations that looked like foxholes. They were building perhaps the biggest topographical map ever made. When finished, it will be a mile-long concrete model of the Mississippi Valley, complete with tributaries, hills and mountains, stretching from Pittsburgh to Denver, from Minneapolis to New Orleans. Object: a laboratory to study flood control...
...tipped brown plumes of dust as they whisked across flying fields and down dusty roads. They worked with their hands, too, and with what machines they had. Their pace was more muscular than the Chinese, and they laughed and kidded as they pounded nails, wore down hummocks with pick & shovel, swarmed over the planes on the flying lines...
...Saloons with such names as the Alley Cat, Collar and Elbow, Pick and Shovel, Graveyard, Pay Day. >Waitresses with such names as Skip Chute, Mag the Rag, Hay ride, The Race Horse, Take-Five Annie, Ellen the Elephant, Little Egypt...
...final test of his work, at war's end, will depend on them. But it will also depend vitally on the speed with which the War Department can shovel out money after contracts are canceled. If the money pours out fast enough, U.S. industry will have enough capital to get into civilian production in jigtime...