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...line of July 5 (see map). But the Red Army counterattacked and one after another Orel, Belgorod and Kharkov toppled. Each loss set in motion the wheels of military necessity and fate. Kharkov's fall necessitated the retreat from the southern bulge. That in turn imperiled the German foothold on the Caucasus. The fall of Orel doomed Bryansk...
Warned Representative Engel: "If there is one thing that will set the returning soldier against his Government, it is excess profits . . . on invested capital, and excess wages paid to labor. . . . If Socialism or Communism ever gets a foothold in this country, it will be because of these wartime profiteers in the ranks of labor and industry...
...honeymoon, and his wife always joined him on his trips until ill health prevented it. His daughter Anna Ellen was born in Alaska. Through the years he had a succession of little sailboats, each needing only two for a crew, each with a dental chair and firm foothold for the doctor on the afterdeck. Finally in 1936 he had one built that exactly suited him-the Cheechako (why Good named her the Eskimo for "tenderfoot" no one knows), a neat, 42-foot, diesel-engined ketch with a hot-water heating system, a bathtub and a small organ for his handsome...
...Guinea foothold held possibilities of a further Allied thrust into the Jap's defensive wall at Rabaul...
Curtain Raiser. The passage of this tax bill will be only a prologue. In itself, it furnishes only a foothold for an attack on the real tax problem of 1943. That problem is to raise the extra $16,000,000,000 which the President has called for in order to check inflation and put the U.S. war effort, on a 50% pay-as-you-go basis...