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...inch of rain since April 1. In the Midwest, summer's first good hot spell perked up the backward corn crop and the farmers' hopes. In the Pacific Northwest, hot winds pushed giant fires through unnaturally dry forests (see cut), near the 250,000-acre wasteland left by Oregon's "Tillamook burn...
Spheres in the Wasteland. Conquered Germany was sure to be a troublesome prize. The Germans themselves were doing all in their power to make it so (see The Occupation). But the conquerors hardly needed the Germans' assistance. The plan of occupation was enough...
Taught by Experience. They had moved into this wasteland of "wrecked masonry surrounded by city limits" on the hot heels of the doughboys. They had been preparing for their job since last September. They knew from aerial maps what damage the city had taken. They were familiar with its industries, its former government, its utilities. Colonel Patterson and his staff had worked out instructions for banks, police and fire officials, postmaster, communications men and all necessary functionaries...
...Unity. For dreary months last winter, in a dreary wasteland camp, 5,000 men of the Greek First Brigade trained for battle service. Many were tough veterans, evzones who had doffed their exotic petti coats and pomponed slippers to fight frost bite and Italians in Albania's wild mountains. They had escaped from the homeland when the Germans turned the tide. Now they chafed to get back into the fight against the Fascists...
Under the wings of a U.S. Army transport Iran's high, hot plateau flowed past. In the wasteland below Special Passenger Francis Joseph Spellman, Archbishop of New York, Roman Catholic Military Vicar and unofficial envoy of the Vatican, lay tumbled the ruins of palaces built by ancient Persian conquerors; across it snaked a railway and motor road pulsing with Lend-Lease for Russia...