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...pair of brothers, both well over 200 pounds, feature the Husky line. They are Milt Dropo, 220-pound center, and Walt Dropo, a massive end of some six feet five inches who weighs in at 200. On the other flank will be Charley Christensen, a speedy 18-year-old who played regularly last fall. That the Huskies pack beef as well as experience on their line a brought out by the fact that only one tentative starter--co captain Charlie Molloy, a guard--is under 220 Pounds. The tackles are AI Yukma and John Brink, with Stedman Herman teaming with...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies were closing in on Chihfeng, last big Communist base in Jehol. Purpose of the campaign: to clear the railroad from Peiping to Mukden and to free from Communist threat the Government corridor from North China to Manchuria. The Jehol offensive also put flank pressure on Kalgen, capital of Chahar province and the Communists' No.1 base...
...railway strike was broken. Before he went to Capitol Hill to ask, dramatically, for his strikebreaking measures, Harry Truman was reasonably sure that he had won the railway war. But the baffling civil war was not won. There was still John Lewis, glowering on the left flank-or was it the right flank? Joe Curran, clearly on the red left, threatened to tie up merchant shipping on June 15 by calling out the maritime unions...
...cotton bloc. OPA fears that the soaring price of raw cotton will wreck its low-cost clothing program. But Bowles was badly mauled by cotton patriots two months ago when he tried to put a ceiling on cotton, the only basic commodity without one. This time he tried a flank attack...
...Turkey and the Middle East, crucial southern flank of Russia's Drang nach Westen, the U.S. sent its showiest battleship, the 45,000-ton Missouri...