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Lord Beaverbrook, in his new job as Minister of State, invited 30 U.S. correspondents to luncheon at Claridge's, told them not to mince words about the M.O.I. He heard plenty: of long-rankling complaints of cables and pictures needlessly held up anywhere from 24 hours to indefinitely; of...
The largest single non-Government borrowing ever attempted was announced last week: to finance a huge $400,000,000 expansion program (including new transcontinental cables buried three feet underground), American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said it would offer its 630,902 stockholders $234,000,000 in convertible debentures.
Army engineers eventually cut roads to the main positions; signalmen laid telephone cables. Otherwise, the artillerymen did it all themselves.
Outside the ward, the fugitives jumped a second guard and a trusty, hustled them, into a sub-basement and locked them up. Through a tunnel used for steam pipes and electric cables they fled, unlocking two doors with keys which they had long since prepared. The tunnel opened on the...
Army headquarters was knocked about and had been transferred. Telephone cables lay twisted in the road. Glass was piled everywhere and occasional craters testified to the effect of the bombing." With such damage from the air, and without any properly organized resistance in all of southern Yugoslavia, there was little...