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...aircraft carrier Ark Royal, and all Bebington was astir to greet her. Streets were hung with naval pennants, shopfronts blossomed in bunting. As bobbies took up stations along the main street to the shipyards, Bebingtonians by the thousands pressed close to cheer the royal Daimler as it sped past. Dustman Cooper was spending the day as usual, driving his garbage truck through the streets, and taking what satisfaction he could from the fact that his truck was a spanking brand-new one, red and shiny as a fire engine...
...bomb," someone yelled and began running. Said a townsman later: "I saw that big pile of smoke just like in the newsreels and I said: 'That bastard Stalin's started it!' " Men & women, carrying children, ran south, away from the blast. Cars loaded with frightened people sped out of town. Mayor Leonard rushed to the city hall, piled into a sound truck and rode about town bellowing reassurance. Finally, the southward rush slowed and stopped...
...areas of China which they held, Chiang's forces became identified with defeat, despair and disorder. The will to resist waned and, by this curious conspiracy of circumstances, revolutionary Communism came to be associated with-of all things-order and the promise of peace. This was the process, sped by the age-old agonies of Asia's crowded, impoverished lands, that brought a determined, rebellious Hunanese peasant and an alien ideology of the West to the overlordship of China's millions...
...industrial machine sped along with hardly a shiver or a shake, the President's Council of Economic Advisers estimated that first-quarter profits had run at an annual rate of $30.5 billion, almost $2 billion better than 1949. The first big batch of first-quarter reports furnished statistical proof of the upsurge. Of 203 reports published by last week, 112 showed better earnings than...
Rick's upward struggles are cut to a minimum in order to bring in the psychiatric element. He is sped to New York, becomes a huge success, and meets Lauren Bacall, horribly miscast as a lady-psychiatrist. Most of what she says is unbelievable ("I am an intellectual mountain goat"). Her "class" bowls him over and he marries her, only to find that she is insanely jealous of his own success. This, and the fluff of a not-too-high note in recording session, make him go to pieces...