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...plenipotentiaries, duck-bottomed Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week borrowed a nickel, pressed through the turnstiles into the subterranean maze. Donning a conductor's cap, he posed at the controls of a shiny new train, then settled back with proud satisfaction as it slithered off through the spotless white tunnel which even smelled clean. Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Subway had been opened...
...mighty bridge, was unworried by its capriciousness. Builder Moisseiff, a refugee from the Tsar 50 years ago, a onetime radical, worked on experiments to correct its sway. So did engineers at the University of Washington, where a $20,000 scale model had been constructed and placed in a wind tunnel...
London had its 200th raid alarm. Liverpool had its 145th since Aug. 1. Serious spot damage fell upon Liverpool docks, factories, stores, office buildings. People flocked into the Mersey tunnel, risking pneumonia. The industrial Midlands came in for 24 hours of "hammer blows," but a correspondent who had just toured from Newcastle and York through the Midlands reported their production capacity virtually untouched. To raise morale and production, honor badges were issued to aircraft workers who stayed on the job throughout raids...
South of the Thames people from the boroughs of Lambeth and Camberwell went to the tunnel which they call The Deep, peeled oranges, played cards, darned socks, curled each other's hair beneath the ancient arches, eventually disrobing because of massed body heat. Some 18,000 were sleeping there regularly, with only local Shopkeeper Dick Levy to keep order and settle camping-site disputes. Self-appointed and popular, he asked assistance from shelterers when necessary. Only medical officer was 19-year-old Mrs. Joan Powney, soldier's wife of the neighborhood, who has a Red Cross certificate...
...Coliseum tunnel moved the Willkie car; a band played "Back Home Again in Indiana," spotlights cut through the dark, and the crowd's cheers settled into the powerful, hypnotic Philadelphia chant of "We Want Willkie!" over & over...