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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, in 1830, wrote Charles Lamb; and thus, last week, felt most U.S. cigaret smokers. But there was little relief in sight. Across the land, men, women and even small fry continued to experiment half-heartedly with pipes. In Chicago, a chain drug store picked up a couple of hundred cartons at a Post Office auction and hauled them away, like so many square-cut emeralds, under bristling armed guard. In Manhattan, two frequently quoted women allowed themselves to be quoted. Said famed Wit Dorothy Parker: "I'm smoking whatever I can get-Strange Fruit, or whatever they...
Whatever military intelligence might have gleaned about V2, the Allied public was given almost no inkling of what got it off the ground, what made it zip to 60-plus mile altitude, what actual damage it was doing. Launchings in The Netherlands were in sight of Allied front lines (at night there were gigantic flashes and a cometlike streak of light through the sky). Some of the rockets fizzled at about 20,000 feet, exploded behind German lines...
...helluva sight tougher. . . . On Guadalcanal we counted 2,300 Japs lying out in front of the division; we captured 22. But we've captured Germans by the thousands . . . probably captured ten to every one we've killed...
Prof. de Haas--Don't lose sight of the wisdom amid his wisecracks. Make any discussion comprehensive and do it all the Dutch...
...almost dawn. All night long a policeman had been walking his beat through a dreary Lima district. Suddenly, as day broke, he saw a blood-chilling sight. On the bank of an irrigation ditch were seven bodies. Two were men, two women, three small children. All had their heads bashed in. All were Japanese...