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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commuter trains, which habitually lose money, are habitually dirty, uncomfortable, crowded, apt to be late-and generally a closer kin to Emett's famed Punch cartoons than to the glossy streamliners. The short-run trains are little better. For the smell of stale tobacco smoke, the sight of stained seat cushions, and close contact with orange peel, cigar butts, and sandwich wrappers, the U.S. offers nothing quite like a Pennsylvania Railroad day coach on the New York to Washington...
There were other visitors to headquarters. Writes Kay: "The nomadic politicians were real burdens. They made a point of collaring every G.I. in sight, bellowing, 'Where you from, Son? I'll be sure to tell your Ma I saw you when I get back to the United States of America...
...Collection baskets are not an inspiring sight. The average basket contains a few bills, a dozen quarters, maybe a hundred dimes and several hundred nickels-a total of maybe $40 or $50 contributed by 500 or 700 people . . . Hence, the detestable practice which leads some priests to go around with the basket. They do it because they obtain more money. But they lose something more precious than money -the respect of the people...
...schools had one common complaint: too many students. In many a U.S. city and town, schools would operate in two shifts. Youngsters would be going to school in cafeterias, churches, and prefabs -and no immediate relief in sight. Said a Detroit school official: "It will be tough through...
...dust on the road, Water somewhere near, the scent of Water touching me; if this would end I could endure the absence in the night, The hands beyond the reach of bands, the name Called out and never answered with my name: The image seen but never seen with sight. I could endure this all If autumn ended and the cold light came...