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Moscow press demands for the second front dropped off abruptly as the conference opened. By now every major detail of what the U.S. and British armies can do arid will do in Europe must have been fully explained to the Russians. But both U.S. and Russian sources in Washington predicted closer military collaboration by Soviet leaders with the Anglo-U.S. Combined Chiefs of Staff...
...Germans found out in 1914 how to manufacture gasoline by treating coal dust with hydrogen under heat and pressure arid have been forced to use it ever since, but they have never licked the high-cost problem. Says an American oil industry expert: "If the master technicians of the world [the Germans] were unable to work out a competitive product by this coal hydrogenation process after almost 30 years of effort, if the British failed to develop an economic method with the help of huge government subsidies, it is highly unlikely that the U.S. will find the answer...
Canadians have their own gripes: the wood-fuel situation is a mess; some believe beer rationing is a temperance plot by the somewhat arid Mackenzie King Government; the much-heralded "cost of living bonus" to peg wages to prices hasn't satisfied labor; the Canadian farm bloc-as in the U.S.-is on the loose to boost farm prices...
...year) was taken in FORTUNE's July issue. In "Ferment in Education" FORTUNE's editors shared the widespread feeling that even the best U.S. schooling has limited educational value, but plumped strongly for more of it (at Federal expense, if need be), arid for a better kind...
...river gulch yellow-haired Sergeant Ivor Andrews watched 17 German tanks file up a slope, let the first four go by towards another gun crew, knocked out the next three. When Belden visited the battlefield after it was all over, he counted 52 German tanks left on the arid, rock-strewn plain between the Matmata Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. Some were blackened from fire, some were still splotched with green camouflage and black crosses. Turrets were torn off, fronts were blown in. They were casualties of Rommel's most earnest attempt to hit back at the British Eighth...