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...First Army troops found they could lunge instead of slog. They lunged upon Eschweiler, nearly midway between Aachen and Düren and astride the six-lane Adolf Hitler Highway to Cologne, only 28 miles away. There the battle turned fluid. More Germans rushed to that gap in their dike, launched weak, futile counterattacks...
...Boss Caesar Petrillo last week spotted a hole in the dike he had raised against new phonograph recordings. Record companies were waxing singers with all-vocal (hence nonunion) rather than instrumental accompaniment (TIME, June 28). Petrillo quickly stuck his thumb in the hole, asked singers to quit doing that. His request was really an ultimatum. Vocalists like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra or Connie Boswell well knew that failure to comply might bar them from future recordings or appearances with Boss Petrillo's union musicians...
...Omaha, the "Big Muddy" (the Missouri) broke through a dike, flooded the municipal airport, stopped many of the city's war plants...
...dear Senator, I'd be very happy if anything I could do could help hold the dike...
Seeds and Dikes. The most important battles of the last month have been in the lake country of central China (see map inset). Along the meandering Yangtze, in the flatlands between Shasi and Yochow, the Japanese threw an eight-pronged drive southward toward huge, dike-bound Tungting Lake. Using perhaps 40,000 troops and plenty of aircraft, the Japanese quickly overran the area between river and lake...