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When the ice went out in the Donjek, the White, the Robertson, the Johnson, the Duke and the Beaver, it took most of the timber bridges with it. Then the rains sluiced down. In some places The Road melted into the tundra. From April 15 until last week, there was no through traffic between Whitehorse and Fairbanks...
...Home. The turn came later that year, when Hope was signed by Pepsodent and told to build his own show. He used light timber-Jerry Colonna, who had been tromboning for CBS; Skinnay Ennis, who had recently formed his own band; the girls who became Brenda and Cobina. But he used skillful carpenters-a round dozen scriptwriters with whom he slaved for weeks. And Hope started ribbing himself. The show clicked almost from the start. Pepsodent's president took Hope on his yacht, remarked: "This is the ship that Amos 'n' Andy built." Said Hope...
...City of the Bombed. Looking through glasses, we saw that sheets and drawers and white pieces of cloth were hanging straight down from windows in the face of the cliff. We ventured upward in column, passing along the way a ghostly old woman lying amid crumbling plaster and shattered timber, who stretched out her hands to us, stared out of sightless eyes, and moaned like the wind whining through pine trees...
...divers had cleared the wreckage of the fire (Feb. 9, 1942), plugged and patched hundreds of openings. The superstructure had been trimmed clean to the promenade deck. Since the ship lay on her side, stagings had to be built for the divers and the workmen above water. Bulkheads of timber and concrete were set in place to divide the ship into compartments, permitting the use of controlled pumping. The plan was to roll the vessel upright, resting on the port bilge keel. By pumping and flooding, movement could be controlled and slowed to prevent a sudden lurch when the ship...
...cities have been "treacherously and inhumanly" bombed. Tiny children in uniform are shown being trained to fight. Tokyo, its streets a blaze of light, is obviously sneering at blackouts. Jap propaganda films "prove" that only force pays, that by its victories the nation already possesses sufficient rubber, timber and other raw materials to carry on a war that will wear out the rest of the world...