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...Tall, angular Brayton C. Case has stuck to his post at the repeatedly bombed agricultural school at Pyinmana near Toun-goo, despite the departure of all civil authority. He is marshaling food supplies for the Chinese armies, sending them truckload after truckload of cabbages, pigs, everything else he can lay his hands on. "If I ran off," he said, "there would be no one around to round up food for these Chinese...
...last week was smiling, 220-lb. Paul Parker, who runs the trim, modern Fine Art Center Museum in the small (pop. 37,000) Rocky Mountain resort of Colorado Springs. Priceless masterpieces from famous museums all over the U.S. were arriving at his back door by the truckload. Spouting South Dakota cuss words at a crew of workmen, Director Parker carefully unloaded the valuable arrivals, stored them away in a basement maze of gigantic vertical steel racks. By last week the number of arrivals, including top-flight Cézannes, Daumiers, Goyas and Van Dycks, had reached 59, topped an aggregate...
...afternoon last fortnight Navy Intelligence decided its case was complete. FBI men went out. picked up the suspects separately. In Tatibana's rooms they found a truckload of assorted information about the U.S. Navy. Arrested on a charge of "conspiracy to obtain national defense information . . . for . . . a foreign power," Commander Tatibana was promptly sprung when Japanese Consul Kenji Nakauchi posted $50,000 bail. Kono could not raise his $25,000 bail, stayed in jail...
Last week twelve years of civil war were at an end in Texas. It began in 1928, when Texas highways were narrow and motorists found big truck and trailer haulers pushing them right off the road. The State adopted the lowest maximum truckload limit in the U.S.: 7,000 lb. Among growers and shippers in the fertile Rio Grande Valley, rebellion has been popping almost ever since...
...already overrun. There were not many Germans in Bulgaria, probably not more than 5,000. But Bulgarians thought they saw them everywhere. They saw Germans in ski clothes leave Sofia hotels early every morning in automobiles. They saw Germans in civilian overcoats driving through the countryside by the truckload. They saw Germans shoring up bridges, building up the shoulders of highways, stocking airfields with gasoline...