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...Wasp, one of the smallest and newest American carriers, was the third carrier lost in the Battle of the Pacific. The others were the Lexington, lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea last May, and the Yorktown, sunk in the Battle of Midway last June...
Italian aliens, said Francis Biddle, had met the test of patriotism. Largest group of enemy aliens in the country, they had the smallest number of internees among the big three (Germany, Japan, Italy). They are working hard on production lines; their sons are fighting in the armed forces. Francis Biddle promised another reward, which will permit about one-third their number to attain citizenship quickly: suspension of the literacy test for all aliens over 50 who have lived in the U.S. continuously since...
These men of the islands represent every State. The smallest island has soldiers from 35 States on its roster, but Alabama and Connecticut predominate. Their devotion to duty is strong. Their life is lonely and boresome, but they know they are doing a job. In their tents or their barracks at night they are constantly and rashly offering $10 for a chocolate malted or $20 for a glimpse of a blonde. They tell each other they would give a cool million dollars, perhaps a billion, to get back home "just for a week or two." But they stick hard...
...building has been destroyed, and of the old woman who refuses to believe that war has come to her. The actors have received the praise they deserve, but the direction is perhaps even more striking--from the unique symbolism of the now-famous flower show to the smallest reaction of the youngest child...
...worst slums in the great industrial cities (steel, jute, cotton) of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. In this vast land of riches, riots, peacocks and poverty the British have invested at least $4,300,000,000 on which they draw an estimated 4.9% annually and pay the world's smallest taxes...