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...chemical just put on the market is an artificial frost for potatoes. When late potatoes reach maturity, farmers pray for frost to kill the vines. If it does not come, a lot of evils may. Potatoes grow lopsided, bumpy. Juicy vines clog the digging machinery, and blight spores from their still green leaves may infect the harvest...
...polyglot mass of Russians, Frenchmen, Poles, Belgians, Netherlander, Italians, Serbs, Bulgars, Greeks threatened to clog and millstone the victors in broken Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS). They were going home or escaping war or just falling in with the vague, aimless movement of the mass...
...warships sent into action, only two escaped without hurt: the 34 that limped home, broken and smoking, would clog their repair yards for months while U.S. planes hammered at them to put them out of business for keeps...
...other German-held Brittany ports-Saint-Nazaire and Lorient -U.S. soldiers plugged at a less spectacular pace. The British, ready to close on Le Havre, hoped it would not become another Brest. But they had little hope that the Germans, if they were squeezed out, would not first clog its deep port with destruction, as they had Cherbourg...
Brest and Saint-Nazaire might be speedily put to use. The swiftness of the American advance had probably given the Germans little time to clog their harbors with destruction. But even if these ports and Lorient had been blocked and shattered, they were prizes of immediate value. They were the Germans' chief Atlantic U-boat bases. The Battle of the Atlantic, already beaten down to nuisance proportions, might be close...