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Bing Crosby was neck-&-neck with Frank Sinatra. Week after a truck full of The Voice's recordings was attacked by hijackers in The Bronx (TIME, Feb. 25), thieves in Brooklyn swiped a truckload of The Toupee's platters...
...Richard denounced the bordellos on physical, patriotic and economic as well as moral grounds. They were responsible for the sharp upsurge in venereal disease: only three doctors serviced the 7,000 prostitutes. They were deep-dyed collaborationist: they had accommodated German soldiers by the truckload, provided the Gestapo with stool pigeons, paid tribute to the most hated Vichyites, including Pierre Laval. They spawned black marketeers. They viciously monopolized 6,000 rooms much needed for decent folk...
Outside the little town of Merino, Colo., Albert Stark rattled along with a truckload of fertilizer. Some 1,400 miles away, in San Francisco, the World Security conference was scarcely two hours old; Mutual's commentators were up to their ears in commentating, and the Blue was airing an ambitious Ben Hecht dramatization of "the little people's" hopes for the world's future...
...Portland. Ore.. R. Tsubota. a truck farmer, brought a truckload of vegetables to the Portland Farmers' Market, found himself virtually boycotted. At nearby Gresham, citizens circulated a petition asking that all persons of Japanese blood be deported to a Pacific island...
...they hacked out two coral quarries. To move the coral, they built a smooth three-lane highway that cut a five-hour haul to 15 minutes. Restricting even generals' cars from the road unless they carried coral, the engineers kept up a round-the-clock shuttle, delivering a truckload of coral every 40 seconds. Then they surfaced the coral with asphalt mixed in a plant built mainly from odds & ends of a shell-shattered Jap sugar mill...