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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gets the fish? What does it matter whether the AF of L or the CIO organizes the Budd Manufacturing Company, so long as MacArthur gets the tanks? If the defense effort keep on going the way it is going now, Mrs. Roosevelt will be hanging from the nearest oak tree, John L. Lewis will be dangling right next to her, and Henry Ford won't know what...
...favorite among the 2,388 delegates was a ten-pound Pekingese, Ch. Che-Le of Matsons Catawba, whose family tree dates back to Chinese antiquity. Ch. Che-Le, said to be worth $1,000 a lb., had won eleven minor best-in-shows in 1941. But the pompous little Peke, apparently overconfident, failed to win even best-of-breed...
...little later, he got the full revelation. On the left "great slabs of light among the showers" shone like the panes of a cathedral while he moved "gently forward, swaying to right and left like a loaded hay-wain," towards Arras, which stood at the root of a tree of flame. He flew over a plain stiff with guns, within range of every caliber, too low to bail out; at 2,000 feet "you drain the cannonade of a whole army." Nursing, from a memory of childhood, "the sense of sovereign protection," he was all but persuaded that each...
Haiti can also grow mimosa, jasmine, tuberose, and the ylang-ylang tree, whose heavily scented yellow-green flowers normally come from the Philippines. The Dominican Republic in addition to all these, can grow the fragrant cassie bush, whose oil is now so scarce that perfumers cannot obtain it for love nor money. There the Jewish refugee colony at Sosua, with funds from U.S. philanthropists, is studying new perfume sources...
...herself. The story involves a colony of Negroes living on a subtropical island who, we couldn't figure out exactly why, can't subsist without a descendant of the white founders watching over them from the ancestral mansion. For two hours, Madeleine chases Stirling from cave to bamboo-tree, limping rather creditably through a script so bad that it makes even the talented Flora Robson appear ridiculous...