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Suitable Match. Outside the Stadium entrances, in the long perambulatory corridor, the cardboard placards mounted on poles (a blown-up Dewey photograph; Dewey the People's Choice; Dewey Witt Win) were piled in chin-high clumps. They were the same nononsense, black-lettered placards which had decorated the sober-looking Dewey headquarters at the Stevens Hotel for two days. Delegates who had visited the businesslike headquarters to look in awe at the machinelike efficiency of the Dewey staff had already seen them...
...days earlier batteries of 8-inch guns, massed thickly on the narrow Karelian corridor into Finland, had opened fire. From the Gulf of Finland came the roar of supporting guns of the Red Baltic Fleet. The Red air force plowed the enemy defenses. At the end of three hours, Soviet infantry and tanks plunged forward into the gaps...
First big job Nate got as a contractor looked juicy $100,000 to paint the corridors of Washington's U.S. Agriculture Building. The catch: there were eleven miles of corridor; it took him three years to paint them. Painter Schriber made up for the loss in later Government work. One item: painting the White House. The thought of this job scares him a little; some 40 coats of white lead over the years must be quite a strain on the walls, he thinks...
Preparation. Last November the Russians began to probe the enemy defenses on Perekop ("Cross-Ditch"), the six-mile-wide northern corridor into the Crimea. One by one, Red scouts mapped the German fire points : 200 in the first line, more in the rear. Other units made ready to cross the Sivash (also called the Putrid Sea), the stagnant, shallow western corner of the Azov Sea. Then the commander, rotund General Feodor Tolbukhin, expert horseman and veteran of Stalingrad, waited...
...port of Odessa (prewar pop. 600,000). Berlin admitted the city had been evacuated, claimed all military equipment had been moved out, too. It was a neat trick if it was done: Red war ships and aircraft were on the prowl outside the harbor, and the only land escape corridor was becoming narrower by the hour...