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...Night. Impatient of routine and red tape, Patton habitually asks and gets the impossible from his supply men. During the winter bog-down on the Saar front, the Third's tanks floundered in the greasy mud. Someone recommended "duck bills"-metal flanges to be welded to tank treads to give them wider grip. Patton tried to get them, "through channels," and finally got 168 duck bills- enough to equip one tank. Next day four companies of the Third's ordnance mechanics, about 1,000 men, were set to work on scrapped treads and other material. Patton wanted duck...
Explaining the reasons for the Allied bog-down in Italy (see below), General Alexander said he could not see an end to the war before next year. General Eisenhower had not publicly altered his prediction made last Christmas and repeated in August that 1944 could bring the end-but, as the Supreme Commander, he had a right to change his mind without saying...
...wish I had space to tell you the special steps we had to take to get the full Invasion story into our editions printed in Mexico City, BogÓta, SÃo Paulo, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Cairo, Teheran, New Delhi, Sydney, and Honolulu and still get the issue out on time. It is a story of wirephoto, of plane delivery, of special teletype hookups and of wonderful cooperation from many friends of TIME-a story that fills seven pages double-spaced...
...rules of the game, the Russian advance ought soon to bog down. The spring floods should halt them-just as mud should long ago have halted them. The irony is that the early spring, which produced mud weeks before the usual time, has produced gradual thaws so that the usual spring floods may not occur at all. At least, the Germans cannot count on them...
...Guardia's Answer. News like this made New York City's fiery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia explode before a Congressional committee. Said the Little Flower: Unless Congress takes effective action on food production and distribution, "the whole administration of food is going to bog down-and hell is going to break loose in this country...