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...Ground adjoins the new Dodge Truck plant on Detroit's Mound Road. Of the 79,000 trucks which the Army is getting from Chrysler, 55,000 have been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit...
...small hours of the morning, they were still there; the population of a doomed city, listening for the thundering guns, the pounding cavalry, the shouts of the victorious rebel army." It never came. The Second Invasion. Instead, McClellan came to whip the shattered army into shape, to snub Lincoln, drive out Scott, feud with Stanton, end up in the Chickahominy swamps with thousands of his perfect army dead. New hordes invaded Washington: contractors, inventors, émigrés, cranks...
...staying on while others tumble. In birling, two sure-footed log-rollers, standing on a peeled log floating in the water, try to spin it so as to roll each other off. With eyes glued to the other fellow's calked shoes, they "cuff it" (roll the log), "snub it" (stop dead and reverse the rolling). First they roll a log 18 inches in diameter, then a 17-incher, finally a 16-incher ("the toothpick"). Two falls out of three wins a match...
...said yes, it would then become the official representative of all Russians in France-including the gentry of the Communist Third International. So the State Department thought up a pretty fib: the Admiral has enough to do tending to British troubles and his own. Shrugging the snub off with no comment, Russia turned to talk Turkey into...
Huey Long's children pulled the rope; the flag fell away. In imperishable bronze, one arm upraised, snub features fixed in the grimace of debate, taller by six inches than the Great Commoner beside him, Huey Long took his place among the graven images of the nation...