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...upper jaw of the Soviet crunch reached far behind Minsk and cut the railroad to Vilna; the lower jaw snapped the trunk line to Warsaw near Baranowicze. Minsk fell, trapping an estimated 150,000 more Germans. Swarms of Red bombers blasted the roads to Vilna and Koenigsberg, to Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk...
...Adler wears to distract attention from his sharp eyes and wolf's teeth. Walter Lippmann, Herbert Hoover, Hugh Gibson, Sumner Welles, the editors of the New York Times and the Popes of Rome are a few of the more important thinkers on war and peace who feel the crunch of the Adler incisors...
...Beautiful." In the Liri Valley, thousands of U.S. soldiers, whose buddies had died on the slope, watched. Then, at 9:28 a.m., from beyond the snow-capped peaks, came the first wave of lordly Fortresses. From the mountain peak came great orange bursts of flame, billowing smoke. The muffled crunch of explosions grew like a roll of thunder...
...there is room aplenty for all kinds of live artillery practice. Gas (tear) is a maneuver hazard. Live bombs crunch. Every soldier learns to crawl under live machinegun fire 40 inches off the ground...
Congress' Answer. The anti-strike bill would give WLB legal status and the authority to subpoena witnesses. It would also crunch labor generally, in a manner inconceivable a few months ago. All last week the pressure on the President was terrific. Many New Deal advisers and most of Capitol Hill, out to crack down John Lewis once & for all, urged him to sign the bill. Labor, furious at being penalized for Lewis' tactics, ganged up solidly against it. The bill itself was a poor one, but it was a potent club to hold over John Lewis...