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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...
...play. Undaunted, Conductor Barbirolli led his forces into the teeth of the German advance, twice a day played items like Wagner's Rienzi Overture and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for cheering servicemen at Eindhoven and Ghent, and squeezed in a few extra concerts for Belgian civilians. At week's end the intrepid Manchesterites were still...
Mere driblets came from mines in South Dakota and New Mexico. Most of the U.S. supply was flown in from Brazil, with a higher priority (A1) than admirals. Belgian Congo and Australia produced some tantalite ore, but shipping difficulties made it hard to get. Now a new source had been discovered in far northern Canada. The discoverer was a stocky, persevering prospector named Gustrne D. De Steffany...
Bayonets in Belgium. Following a fortnight of riots in Brussels, the Belgian Chamber of Deputies met behind a wall of British tanks and bayonets, voted, 116 to 12, to retain Premier Hubert Pierlot. In Brussels, there were many strikes. But most of Belgium was quiet. The Communists continued to shout: "The Pierlot Cabinet is condemned by the mass of people." Through the newly opened port of Antwerp, people expected Allied food...
...Emily Hahn became the University of Wisconsin's first woman graduate in mining engineering. Several years later she began to smoke cigars, wrote a satirical guide to seduction (Seductio ad Absurdum). In 1930 she turned up in the Belgian Congo wearing shorts and pith helmet, and wrote a book about it (With Naked Foot). After a spell as a reporter in London, footloose Emily's flight from the domestic atmosphere of Winnetka took her in 1935 to newspaper work in Shanghai and an unconventional apartment in the city's red-light district. She stayed in the Orient...