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...Principle 2 Vandenberg could report: all rail bridges on lines leading to the bulge were down and were being kept down by repeated attacks. Only one main bridge still stood in the Belgian salient. Back of it the bombers had created a bridgeless arc extending from Cologne to the Moselle River. The.German railheads were pushed steadily back by continued attack. But the bridges over the Rhine were left standing. "Ike" Eisenhower apparently still believed that the Germans would commit all they had to a battle west of the Rhine (TIME...
...movement was born on Dec. 21, 1844, when 28 shabbily dressed flannel weavers met in a warehouse on Toad Lane, Rochdale, Lancashire. They put in about $5 each so that they could buy candles, sugar, etc., in larger quantities, thus get them cheaper. Now there arc 143,000,000 members of 810,000 cooperative societies throughout the world...
...rain drenched clothes and cigarets, and the mud stalled traffic, the G.I.s cursed the engineers. The engineers were too busy to curse back. Under sodden skies by day, under arc lights by night, soaked night & day, with mud in their hair and eyes, the engineers worked on two main jobs: roads and airfields...
...donated by her followers, she built the huge (5,300 seats) Angelus Temple, provided it with crystal doors, a silver band, a $25,000 radio station. In the Temple her talents found full scope. Clad in white flowing robes, her hair burnished gold in the glare of the arc lights, a Bible under one arm and a bunch of red roses in the other, she exhorted the Angelenos to come and be saved...
Since barter has its limitations, more often the G.I.s sell for cash. Informal G.I. markets have sprung up around the Arc de Triomphe, in the Place Pigalle, under the Eiffel Tower, in bistros, restaurants, around jeeps pausing in traffic jams. These sales give soldiers enough money to buy at Paris prices...