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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guard posts are all over, not just at key points, as in our case. Red flags, pictures of Stalin (and Benes), and bellicose posters are prominent. . . . The highways, which are crowded on the American side, are almost empty. A good part of military traffic is horse-drawn - an odd sight to G.I. eyes...
...about 19-20 years old, and kids of 15 are to be seen. . . . The men's uniforms are mostly shabby, but the officers' are usually in excellent condition. Very many women soldiers - nurses, traffic MPs, and other troops. The women traffic MPs are quite a sight, but our Army is wise not to follow this example...
...eruptions go away in time, but some hang on for months. Civilians often assume the diseases are catching, or venereal. Result: most sufferers try to keep out of sight, even of their families...
Warner Bros. technicians had to protect the big Douglas plant at Santa Monica against twin risks. Within easy periscope sight from the Pacific, it was vulnerable to shells as well as bombs. Forehanded Douglas architects had their camouflage plan ready before Pearl Harbor. The moviemen made miniatures, photographed them from simulated bombing altitudes. Building a dummy airport, phony plant and fake residential subdivision (complete with washing on the clothes lines) took 2½ years, $2½ million. It was duplicated on the plant when war came...
...settlement mill, Bob Hinckley expects to speed up OCS still more. If Japan quits soon the rate will have to reach $4 billion a month; if V-J day does not come for a year, only $3 billion. Both of these settlement goals are so close in sight that Bob Hinckley considers the hardest part of his job done...