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...Greeks claimed continuing success against these counterattacks. They said they had taken, and turned against the Italians, "highly impressive" new enemy fortifications near Corizza. At a mountain pass, a bomb dislodged a huge boulder, blocked a highway and trapped a convoy of 100 trucks, which the Greeks said they bombed to destruction. The Greeks still had things to laugh about: they heard that the new Italian Commander in Chief, Ugo Cavallero, had chosen to go to Albania the safe way-by land through neutral Yugoslavia, disguised as an engineer...
Power. The public development of hydroelectric power. "From the standpoint of the Treasury, the records of the great public power projects at Boulder . . .and at Bonneville . . . are reassuring. Both are liquidating their commitments to the Government. . . . Where irreconcilable conflicts arise . . . private holdings should not be confiscated, and we now have a working precedent . . in the recent acquisition by purchase of private companies by the Tennessee Valley Authority." (Wendell Willkie had read this section of the speech in advance...
Second prize has ben given to Julian 10. Agoos '40, whose picture of "Column," a young boy, is notable for its clarity and realism. "Boulder Dam," showing the white concrete contrasted with the rugged mountains in the background, has won third prize for John B. Breed...
...thrusts that have so disorganized the Russians. He fought for Germany in World War I. And in charge of the Karelian Isthmus is General Harald Ohquist, who helped to design the series of positions that have come to be known as the Mannerheim Line. Finns say he knows every boulder on the isthmus. So well has he defended it against terrific frontal assaults that the Finns thought up a story about it. A Russian soldier knocks at the gates of Heaven and St. Peter opens the gates. "So you're dead now?" says St. Peter. "Oh, no," says...
...have to get at the foundation of a thing to be effective," he said, giving his reasons for choosing Lenin as the focus of his attack on Communism. In his view of the Finnish War. "Russia is a big boulder coming down on a pebble; but the pebble was able to slip aside, and now it is dynamiting the houlder...