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...once the greatest mess of wishful thinking and the greatest production dream in U.S. history. It multiplied astronomically impossible figures by five and hoped that each figure would show up as something hard, tangible, useful or deadly: a tank, a gun, a ship, a plane, a truck, a tent, a uniform, a mess kit, a blanket, a parachute, a monkey wrench, a lathe, a screw...
...Yakutat, where the Army is constructing an air base, it rained so constantly that they had to lay concrete runways under a tent-a 600-ft.-long marquee which they rolled along the site as the concrete finally dried, hardened. On the muskeg moss plains of Annette they filled in foundations for runways with rock dynamited out of distant quarries and hauled laboriously over the mucky wasteland...
...battle pitches a tent of smoke and dust over itself. Into the murk new forms rush. Supply vehicles, naked of protection, dart squarely into the mixup, make contact with tanks which have run out of fuel or ammunition, and, if they are not crumpled, bounce out again. Command cars dash in & out. Ambulances go in undaunted, and their crews run about hunting wounded...
Tallulah Bankhead went to the hospital with flu the night she opened in a new Clifford Odets show, Clash by Night, in Philadelphia. She was pronounced "much better" after a day in an oxygen tent...
Autopsy. Author Chamberlin doubts "whether most Americans realize the ex tent of the fall of liberal civilization in Europe, the thorough sweep of old stand ards and values." In chapters like The Russian Revolt Against Civilization; Ital ian Fascism: Middle Class Bolshevism; The German Power Machine; The Clash of Revolutions in the Orient; The Fall of France; America Faces the Iron Age, he makes sure that they will...