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...Denver, a driver of a dump truck crawled into his bin to keep warm. A steam-shovel operator buried him under a load of dirt. The bin was tipped to release him, and the dirt buried him again on the ground. Somebody then drove the truck over his legs, but the dirt protected him and he returned to work...
...soldier offered me his shovel. I took it and unconsciously traced the characters "Father" and "Mother" in the soft sand. Then I erased them and wrote the names of my wife and children. I touched the good-luck omen my mother had given me and I thought of her prayers for my safety. . . . I murmured: "I don't want to die. Can nothing help me?" I put my hand on my heart as though to stop its pounding and told myself that this was not fear. But I was apologizing to myself. For that's what...
...Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels: "I know you have it hard today. . . . Your wives sometimes stand for hours before stores in order to buy some vegetables. Your children are frequently sent into the country and separated from you for months. . . . Then because necessary hands are not available you have to shovel coal; then at nights go into air-raid protection cellars and, after two hours' sleep, back to hard work. That is the way it is in many cities of the Reich and in some even worse...
Almost since the first shovel of dirt was turned in the emergency construction program the Quartermaster Corps has been under fire. Bereft once before of its construction functions, during World War I, it had got them back, in 1920 (by recommendation of General Pershing), since then has had lots of experience building barracks, officers' quarters, CCC camps, flying fields...
...merchants liked it too: "Hell, yes. Charge the stuff to 'em. They get one of them blue government checks every two weeks. All they got to do to get it is to get in a bunch and stand around leaning on a shovel for sixty-five hours. . . . Charge it to 'em. Add about half again onto everything they...