Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi youth leader who made three trips through the U.S. lines with military information for the retreating Wehrmacht before he was caught. A U.S. Army court sentenced him to death; on review, the sentence was reduced to life imprison ment. When a U.S. correspondent saw Karl Fuzeler in his cell, he was quite will ing to admit that Germany had been beaten. But he had lost none of his belief in Hitler and Naziism, none of his conviction that Germans are superior to Americans, Britons, or Russians. The Allied armies happened to have more materiel-that...
Candidate Gomes may well be supported by the followers of another Brazilian revolutionary hero, Communist Luis Carlos Prestes, who is now doing time in a Rio prison, charged with sedition and engineering a murder from his prison cell. Brazil's unorganized leftists (together with world liberals) have long agitated for Prestes' release on the ground that he is unjustly accused. Leftist backing is contingent on Gomes' 1) plumping for Soviet recognition, 2) guaranteeing amnesty for Prestes and other political prisoners...
...daubed with a coating of lampblack and collodion. Then he was made to lie down on a table and, while voices taunted him with horrible threats, one of the brothers stood ready to give him a mild shock in the crotch with an induction coil charged by two dry-cell batteries...
Last week R.M.R. officials had cause for celebration. Average cell production was running about 500,000 a day, with only 783 regular full-time employes. But, in addition, some 4,000 people collected paychecks for regular part-time work, and there was an average of 500 casual workers...
...House Military Affairs Committee last week by Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. He listed 17 critical items whose production must be stepped up 19% (tanks) to 300% (60mm. and 81-mm. mortars). Some others: heavy artillery ammunition (89%), airborne radar (32%), field and assault wire (50% plus), dry-cell batteries (27%), heavy-duty truck and bus tires...