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Easygoing James Bruce soon had headaches galore. Argentina had stopped payments on U.S. investments. Strict regulations worked against U.S. capital and business in Argentina. Last June the U.S. contributed a crusher: EGA hinted that unless Argentina stopped gouging its customers, EGA would buy no Argentine wheat or beef-in other words, Argentina would get no dollars through European financing...
...speculative London report suggested that the Nazis are using the same pressure principle to crush atoms. The crusher: A "Neuman" demolition charge, which explodes inward instead of outward. Used in a sphere, the Neuman charge might develop pressures of tens of thousands of tons per square inch at the center, perhaps enough to disintegrate an unstable atom such as uranium and release its explosive atomic energy. British scientists believe that such an explosion, though not far-reaching in area, would develop unheard-of violence at the point of impact...
...Germans could not hold everywhere : their collapse in Hungary meant that the Danube approach to Austria had become a fourth crusher point against the Reich (see map). Eisenhower in the west and Stalin in the east had the superiority in manpower, material and generalship to wear out the enemy quickly when they brought their full weight to bear...
MacArthur's drive, aiming toward Japan through the Philippines, is the southern crusher of the wider, more inclusive Nutcracker...
Crime & Combustion. In Newark,N.J., county prisoners finally left all that behind them-the rock pile was abandoned because of a continual lack of gas to run the stone-crusher. In Topeka, the county rationing board granted William Jake Wortham's application for emergency gas coupons-he had to travel to Bisbee, Ariz., to face a murder charge...