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Artillerymen cleaned and reset their pieces, stacked ammunition in orderly piles. Their infantry comrades of the 1st Defense Battalion, U.S.M.C., worked at their rifles, dug entrenchments for the last stand, squinted critically at bright bayonets. The remainder of 1,000 A.F. of L. workmen who had been at work on the island deepened air-raid shelters, helped out Marines at their tasks. On the airdrome, mechanics and officers of the Marine's air squadron, VMF-211, patched up new planes from the tangled junk of their original twelve, now broken and burned by Jap bombs...
...East Coast, where confusion was as thick as anywhere, a horrible example was Mayor LaGuardia's own New York City. City Hall, where the Little Flower was trying to be mayor of the nation's biggest city while he was also heading OCD, was in an uproar. Workmen piled into the mayor's offices, tore up floors, laid wires, erected parti tions. Women in blue-grey uniforms, brass buttons and gold epaulets snapped salutes at one another and the mayor, twinkled off in all directions with Mr. LaGuardia's orders...
Fitted like a giant picture puzzle, the world's largest photomural was pasted last week on the east wall of the vast, high-vaulted rotunda of Manhattan's Grand Central Station. When the crew of workmen climbed down from their gargantuan paperhanging job, Grand Central's milling crowds saw a 96-by-118-foot symbolic picture of three things the U.S. is fighting for: the fertile U.S. land, the productiveness of U.S. industry, the future welfare of U.S. children. Its purpose: to encourage travelers and commuters* to buy more U.S. defense bonds and stamps...
...Recife, on Brazil's eastern bulge, A.D.P. took over another Air France field, flanked by an extremely powerful Lati radio station. Lati planes still use this field too, almost grazing the heads of A.D.P. workmen. To enlarge the runway from 800 to 1,550 meters, A.D.P. is moving by hand labor 120,000 cubic meters of soil, cutting and filling spots often 20 feet off-grade. But Superintendent Fred Wohn had trouble getting enough of the necessary small, hand-pushed dump trucks. A German contractor had some; when Wohn tried to rent them for the A.D.P. project, he flatly...
Another instance cited is that of a message sent from Brest in the summer of 1937 which read like this: "The erniser Colbert is in dock No. 6 Amnament 6425, forward guns carefully phoioed, agents incited workmen's strike on Monday 16th...