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They could recall two major incidents: 1) French newspapers once charged that Allied flyers had spared I. G. Farben fac tories (some U.S. papers had also printed it); 2) a sensational yarn that U.S. troops destroyed supplies which French civilians might have used (a story which the French were slow to correct when proved wrong). Aside from these, the French press - as best exemplified by the Paris dailies -has been almost timid in discussing its great western ally. The further fact is that the old, rowdy prewar Paris press is either dead or sound asleep...
...offensive was probably timed to coincide with an ultimatum to Germany's people to overthrow their government and end the bombing (see p. 32). The morale of Berliners and Germans was as much the R.A.F.'s target as the sprawling fac tories, Government offices and railway communications of their capital. The Battle of Berlin will continue, said the R.A.F.'s Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, "as opportunity serves and cir cumstances dictate until the heart of Nazi Germany ceases to beat...
Eisenhower. Probably the greatest fac tor of all in the victory, and certainly the most encouraging for the future of the United Nations, was the unity of all arms, of all nations, of all commanders, of all units participating on the Allied side. This unity had to be achieved after some initial difficulties, and it was largely the handiwork of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. As commander of the whole Allied effort, he has kept himself rigidly out of the limelight, has exercised the greatest possible tact, and has contributed many ideas (the forced march of U.S. troops from El Guettar...
Kahn had never done one, but "would try." Brother Julius Kahn (later president of Truscon Steel, vice president of Republic) had invented an improved type of steel-reinforced concrete. The Packard fac tory became the first reinforced concrete and steel sash factory in the U. S. It also had window area of revolutionary proportions and a layout planned for efficient production. With this pioneering start, Kahn became the industry's No. 1 architect-engineer, has ever since designed most of Ford's, Chrysler's, General Motors' plants...
...know what your correspondent, Willie Weaver of Curityba, Brazil, is doing in the jungles of South America, but I think someone should entice that gentleman to drop his facões and take...