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...flamethrower to kill weeds. Running along the ground between rows, this torch-like apparatus, while burning off weeds, left the thicker cotton stems unharmed...
...when we entered the Avenue Aristide Briand, 9:40 when we passed through the Porte d'Orleans. This was Paris proper and, if such a thing were possible, the crowd grew thicker in the street. When the General's car stopped, they climbed up on it with their flowers and flags-Tricolors, Stars & Stripes, Union Jacks, Red flags with the hammer & sickle. Leclerc stood stiffly clutching his cane, never smiling, while the men in the armored car and in the jeeps behind took the crowd's embraces. Women held their children up to be kissed...
...five long years rumors of China's imminent collapse have been thick as tea leaves on the bottom of a drained teapot. Last week they were thicker than ever. China's ragged army of rifleman and grenade-throwers had fought a critical campaign under appalling hardships (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Washington gossips croaked the news that Vice President Henry Wallace brought Franklin Roosevelt from Chungking: China's situation is grave, even desperate. And last week neutral Russia, breaking its long reticence about the Sino-Japanese war, treated its exhausted neighbor to a stroke of the bear...
...Correspondents' uniforms were thicker than usual around TIME'S offices last week. Army & Navy Editor Perry Githens came back from 45 days on a baby flattop. Foreign News Editor Fill Calhoun returned from the Mediterranean theater where he went last August. Bill Chickering got back from the landings on Bougainville and Kwajalein. And Bureau Chief Bill Fisher came home from the Far East for the first time since...
...casualties had gone up to over 10%. No matter how precious the targets, the flyers and the fleets could not stand such losses. The Germans had come up with new rocket-bearing fighters which could lurk outside the range of U.S. .50-caliber machine guns. Flak was getting thicker...