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...loosen from the bones." (At this point. Defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop winced, tore off his earphones, hung his head.) Qappelen continued, telling of a trip across Germany to Dachau. Said he: "We were five days without food and water in open cars in sub-zero weather. About half the trainload was dead by the last day. ... In Munich, 100 of us prisoners, all looking like corpses, were marched through the streets...
...Army took another step in retreat from Canada's subArctic. To Winnipeg from Churchill, Manitoba's port on Hudson Bay, chugged a trainload of some 200 Army engineers, quartermasters, signal men and maintenance men. They had been holed up in dreary, chilly U.S. outposts in the far north for so long (some of them for two years) that they could be forgiven for chalking on the sides of their U.S. Pullmans: "Back To God's Country...
...automobile-lined streets would seem incredibly fresh, well-dressed, well-fed. The great shipyards around San Francisco Bay would launch another small fleet before they departed. And along the Embarcadero they would see Harry Bridges' longshoremen loading ships with tanks, guns, food and clothing by the endless trainload...
...Most Mexican merchants buy by the box and crate, as against the Sears trainload, and sell at the highest possible markups...
...From Paris came one explanation of the frontline shortage of smokes. Three officers and 181 G.I.'s were jailed, accused of selling a trainload of U.S. supplies (cigarets and soap) to French black marketeers. More arrests were expected...