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...Countess checked in at the Athene Palace the day Paris fell. She found the hotel swarming with "spies of every Intelligence Service in the world; the diplomats and military attaches of great and little powers; British and French oil men on their way out, and German and Italian oil men on their way in; Gestapo agents and Ovra agents and OGPU agents, or men who were at least said to be agents; amiable Gauleiters and hardheaded economic experts; distinguished Rumanian appeasers and mink-clad German and Austrian beauties who were paid to keep them happy. ... As the drama of bloodless...
Even in midwinter, the land does not hold back its wealth. In Florida it is harvest season. Men & women in straw hats swarm over beanfields and sugar-cane plantations; trucks churn through fields to pick up oranges and grapefruit; the strawberry crop moves out by the carload; small farmers ride to town in wagons brimming with cucumbers, squash, eggplant. In Texas' Rio Grande Valley it is harvest time for grapefruit and cabbage, for tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, peppers, carrots and beets...
...Pearl Harbor, 2,897 men had died, said Navy Secretary Frank Knox. In the Philippines, thousands more were killed, wounded or taken prisoners, as Douglas MacArthur's outnumbered forces fell back before a swarm of Jap invaders...
...Prince of Wales was attacked by a swarm of torpedo bombers. She was hit astern, her propellers and steering gear knocked out. This was exactly the kind of blow by which the British themselves had crippled the Bismarck...
...swarm of workmen in the buildings, in the yard, up the road at the largest machine shop west of the Mississippi, Rube Fleet sees enough to make an ordinary man's eyes pop ten times a day. Consolidated employs better than 30,000 workers. Six years ago, when Fleet settled down in San Diego, he approved a payroll that had only 311 names. A year ago. when he employed 9,000, he still personally checked the payroll and passed on every request for a raise. But not now. With new employes taken on at the rate...