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General Eisenhower had hoped to crush Nazi resistance in the west in front of the Rhine. Field Marshal von Rundstedt, however, observing the Allied power arrayed against him, ordered a withdrawal behind the big river. It was a choice of two evils. Rundstedt's decision meant that the vital industries of the Ruhr would be brought into the front lines-the forward areas exposed to immediate shellfire, and the whole valley to eventual cross-river attack...
...last the crush was so bad that customs officers asked Windsor police to detain U.S. shoppers until the jam on the Detroit side cleared. Then they were released in groups of 50 aboard the Detroit-Windsor tunnel bus. On the U.S. side, shoppers had to stand in line while customs men opened all packages, weighed the meat, collected ration points and duty. In one day last week 17,500 U.S. shoppers were examined, 1,200 had to surrender 39,000 ration points and $1,400 in duty. U.S. Customs Collector Martin Bradley had to add 15 men to his staff...
...most Thurber-prose and drawings is a reticent, befuddled, thwarted little man who tries sadly to preserve himself and his reason against a practically worldwide onslaught. Grim psychiatrists, gadgets that "whir and whine and whiz," erratic servants, domineering women, unfriendly dogs, ghosts, foreigners -all are in league to crush the Thurber Male. This harried biped, like Joyce's Leopold Bloom or Mann's Hans Castorp, represents 20th-century Man. To Thurber's devotees, who rate him the greatest U.S. humorist since Mark Twain, his blankly exaggerated reports of their own qualms and misadventures are recognizable and (since...
...time was fast approaching, as far as he was concerned, when they could no longer look to the taxpayer as a financial prop to support agricultural prices at artificially high prices. But what every Senator knew was that Administration policy can change. The outcries of the farmers, or a crush of postwar food surpluses, might make Administrator Jones's warning more of a nostalgic bow to free markets than a firm announcement of things to come...
...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...