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These forthright words of General Somervell shocked the gathered businessmen. If General Somervell knew what he was talking about, war production was not even approaching the crest of the hump...
...middle 205 she was the good friend of Humboldt and Schopenhauer. By the time she was in her middle 305 she had modeled these two, as well as Garibaldi, George V of Hanover, Victoria of England, Ludwig II of Bavaria and platoons of chemists and literary men. At the crest of her fame and beauty, she left Europe, spent the rest of her long life in Texas. There she was, if anything, more fantastic...
...Freshmen. One day last November, three weeks after the Allied landing on the coast, a group of sweating U.S. tankmen halted their 750-mile dash from Oran, near the crest of a hill overlooking Tunis. The prize was twelve miles away. They had paused for orders from the officer commanding the shoestring force of British infantry behind them. As they waited, two German fighter planes swooped over the hills and strafed the British infantry, whose commander had belatedly decided to wait for air support. The support never came in time. Rushing German strength stopped the Allied dash...
Last week the gale broke in a whistling fury, beat around the doors of the White House, whipped in & out of WPB, OWI, OPA and many another Federal agency, chilled the neck of every power-wielding office holder. Prominent Democrats rode the crest of it, outdoing Republicans in bureau-baiting and defiance of Government-by-executive-edict...
...biggest sellers, whose discs annually gross over $500,000. His Tchaikovsky Concerto (Victor) started a national furor a year ago when Bandleader Freddie Martin heard it and made a popular arrangement that was worn ragged in juke boxes from coast to coast. Rubinstein's proper version, riding the crest with Martin's adaptation, shortly rolled up a sale of an estimated 200,000 albums. His Grieg Piano Concerto, released by Victor in July, sold over 100,000 sets in its first three months...