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...military biographer, Captain Harry Butcher, says that it was a byword among American officers that 'Eisenhower is the best general the British have.' Eisenhower got this reputation by acceding to a British war plan calculated to allow the British commander, Field Marshal Montgomery, to achieve all of the decisive breakthroughs ... It was he who called off General Bradley's victorious armies when they were across the Elbe, thus reserving for Russia the enormous political advantage of capturing Berlin . . . Eisenhower it was, also, who turned General Patton from his unchecked advance upon Prague and let the capital...
...this whoopla was nothing new to George and Sam Friedland, the hard-selling brothers who run Food Fair Stores. They have pyramided a single small butcher shop into a chain of 131 big stores, the seventh biggest food chain in the U.S. Moreover, they have made it unique as the only major chain which consists of nothing but supermarkets. It is so efficient that it can usually meet the prices of such giants as A & P and Safeway, yet nets more out of every sales dollar (2.30?) than any other chain in the big eight...
Crowds yelled "Ahy Makki" ("Oh, you Makki"). A man with a butcher knife slit the throat of a trussed-up bull to show that Makki was truly welcome. Makki, briskly stepping over a pool of blood, got into a baby blue Oldsmobile convertible. Drums began to pound and blood crimsoned the car's whitewall tires...
...States so that she can be converted in a short time to carry 14,000 troops. Below decks the United States has the same watertight compartments which make Navy ships hard to sink. To keep the ship fireproof, no wood has been used "except in the pianos and the butcher's chopping blocks"; all the paint is fire-resistant, and the furniture is stuffed with spun glass...
When an attempt was made to bomb the Soviet legation last February, Shehu put Tirana under nightly curfew, ordered his police to shoot on sight anyone seen in the streets, set up secret courts to dispose of suspects. Shehu, known as "the butcher," commands a well-equipped army of 70,000, whose main function is maintaining internal order...