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...Hunt. There at the President's order the War Department set up some 600 tents in neat company streets. In each tent were placed eight cots, eight pairs of blankets, eight mess kits. Electric lights were strung up. Latrines were dug. Army kitchens and mess halls were built. Shower shacks were constructed and water hydrants provided, with laundry boards. From Washington to this clean, dry camp were escorted nearly a thousand members of the Veterans Expeditionary Force and told to make themselves at home. As host, the Army supplied three thumping big meals a day. In a large convention...
Each time the storm of a great Japanese offensive breaks in North China it is preceded by a gentle shower of propaganda leaflets. Month ago the shower fell on Miyun, 50 mi. northeast of Peiping (TIME, May 1). Last week a Japanese plane zoomed through a wild anti-aircraft barrage over Peiping itself. U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson hopped out of bed into a yellow dressing gown to peer at the plane through binoculars, examine one of the first leaflets...
...summer of 1929 Mr. Williams and Mr. Catchings joined forces and raised a shower of fireworks over Wall Street. Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. had (besides ventures in Chicago's Foreman Bank and the Detroit banking situation) acquired a stake in Pacific Coast utilities. Turning eastward Mr. Catchings cast his eye on the great North American...
...April shower. By the time four years are up we shall miss our Dolly Ganns and our Cissie Pattersons. Now, I am awfully sorry, I must rush off for a buffet affair for some 200 people. Isn't it vulgar...
...square outside the hotel, surrounded, like a hen with chicks, by the whole Giant team. At length Trainer Willie Schafer was prevailed upon to go back into the hotel and get the players' overcoats. Trainer Schafer's earthquake experience was trying. He was taking a shower at the ball park when the first shock hit. The next thing he knew he was standing on second base stark naked...