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...also cautioned against the "contagious seduction of the mass movements of our time. They invite you to unload the responsibilities of personal life upon society as a whole. If you are a fellow-traveler you can hand over the direction of your life to some higher...
...profits to ribbons. Other British automakers groaned: "We'd better get out of the American market." As their contracts with U.S. buyers broke down (2,561 cases since last July), browbeaten businessmen ran to the Board of Trade's "Advisory Panel on Frustrated Exports" for permission to unload in the British market...
Next month, Dave Beck's agents will begin descending on drivers of the nation's 6,000,000 trucks, wherever they stop-for a cup of coffee, to weigh-in or unload cargoes, at bridges, tunnels or gas stations. Beck's boys will ask to see their union credentials. Drivers that have them will be allowed to grind on. Those that do not will be neatly listed in Beck's books. Later, Teamster organizers will campaign among non-union drivers, pay calls on their employers, persuade them to sign contracts with the mighty Teamsters...
...first time in the war he had seen from the air large groups of men actually locked in battle. Every village in sight was burning; the fields were covered with bodies. On his first runs the pilot had had a large rectangle into which to unload his supplies. By the third day the Communists had chewed it into a ragged L. A steady rain of shells poured in from all sides...
...Suchow, MacWilliams eased his plane into position beside a string of C-46s. A truck pulled up to his plane to unload the rice; his return load of soldiers was already waiting to board the plane. MacWilliams joined a group of American pilots beside one of the planes. As they talked the thump of artillery and aerial bombs was audible in the distance...