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...Last Ditch. The story of the next few days was the story of a desperate Allied stand. British artillery and lumbering new Churchill tanks rolled up to block the pass at Sbiba. In the area of Tebessa-the Allied base for Central Tunisia-U.S. cannon and armor, supported by strong air units operating in dubious flying weather, pounded and slashed at the German onrush. In the critical Thala sector British armor, probably drawn from the First Army's reserves, and fresh U.S. artillery fought through the afternoon and into the night...
...Ambassador Steinhardt would have liked to see Moatsie get out of Russia. But Moatsie's "cold grey" eyes showed her determination to "fight to the last ditch." She had come a long, tough way. At Tokyo's Imperial Hotel the roughness of the bathtub had left, she said ruefully, a "waffle design" on her posterior. Later, she had caught influenza. Her lipstick had run out. She was without holeless silk stockings. But when Steinhardt told her she had been "spoiled rotten by [her] parents" she replied "with gibes even more cutting...
...dozing at last week's Congressional tax hearings (an easy feat) might have picked up some startling impressions between cat naps. Testifying before the House Ways & Means Committee was the Treasury's neat, mild-mannered General Counsel Randolph Paul. In view of the Treasury's last-ditch opposition to the famed Ruml income tax plan, some of Mr. Paul's statements were enough to make anyone sit up. Said...
Thus, early one morning last week, the world's biggest (24-inch) oil pipeline was finished-550 miles from Longview, Tex. to Norris City, Ill. It had been a mean, dirty, backbreaking, six-month job. But the thousands of men who had dug the ditch and laid the pipe and swabbed its insides clean had given the pipe an affectionate name-the "Big Inch...
...where German engineers had sown the dead with booby traps. He was off again, rolling under the Marble Arch on which was inscribed: "O beneficent sun, thou seest nothing greater than the City of Rome." At Wadi el Chebir wild camels and gazelles pranced across the dreary ditch-scarred land. At Wadi Zemzem the pilgrim drew himself...