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...machinery needed elsewhere in its present form-are about to see their means of production go to the junk pile. More important to the U.S. as a whole, it would mean that, when peace comes, there will be no machinery left that is designed to produce for the inevitable tidal wave of post-war civilian demand. $40 for $4,000. An index of what such wholesale destruction would mean came from Detroit, where the auto industry estimated that scrapping their 1942 model equipment (to which Nelson specifically referred when he talked about machinery packed away in grease) would mean...
...port of Lomas the sea sucked back 600 feet from shore, then heaved a tidal wave that smashed warehouses and seethed into the town. The people of Lomas scuttled into nearby hills. There, after nightfall, they pointed to a fresh terror: a great shadow slowly passed over the face of the moon...
...event. Written in a little over 30 hours by 50 journalists-"50 working reporters called from golf courses and football games, from unfinished mid-day dinners and symphony concerts and favorite radio programs"-it is a collection of shorthand notes recording the emotion that swept the U.S. in a tidal wave as the Arizona burned, the Oklahoma capsized and U.S. soldiers & sailors died in action for the first time in 23 years. The reporters: the News Bureau Staff of TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE. Their assignment: the people of the U.S. Public-opinion polls could record the shift of ideas...
...third time in nearly half a century, the Annual Regatta of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association will not be held on the Hudson off Poughkeepsie. Reasons: 1) the shortened college year makes it advisable to hold the races before June 15, until which time the river's tidal conditions are unfavorable; 2) the spectators' observation cars have been dismantled; 3) most of the competing crews row on dead water, and their athletic associations, deprived of observation-car revenue, want to avoid the expense of the ten days' training necessary to acquaint their oarsmen with the Hudson...
...Washington, President Roosevelt could see spring right outside his office. Near his window a white jasmine shrub was beginning to blossom; pansies popped their bright faces around the brooding State Department rookery. The cherry trees budded around the Tidal Basin-except for the four sawed down in December by overzealous patriots. At noon and night, Washington's parks, where the iris grew almost fast enough to be watched, were filled with lonesome boys & girls from small towns, who wondered how the spring looked back home...