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...Germans did not hold. Rokos-sovsky's men marched into Mozyr, the Pripet Marshes' second strongest base. This week they headed toward the Wehrmacht's strongest base in the region, Pinsk, 97 miles away. Behind, in the snow-garlanded forests, countless German stragglers froze to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Meat of History | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Rescuers picked their way among crushed, decapitated, legless bodies. When medical help arrived, the water froze in the syringes which held pain-killing drugs. Forty-eight hours later, after the wreckage had been cut through by acetylene torches, after a warehouse at Red Springs was piled high with bodies, the death toll stood at 72, including 52 servicemen, most of them home-bound for Christmas.* The injured: more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Why? | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...three singing Gumm sisters arrived from their home at the edge of the Mojave Desert to play a week of vaudeville at Chicago's Oriental Theater. Their blood froze when they read the marquee legend: THIS WEEK GEORGE JESSEL and THE GLUM SISTERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 27, 1943 | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch "froze" its total circulation, will accept no new customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Paper Shortage | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...years, the Minneapolis investment group of Investors Syndicate, Investors Mutual, Inc. and Investors Syndicate of America has sold $1,500,000,000 in certificates to 400,000 persons. Last week SEC charged that the group had "perpetrated fraudulent practices." SEC froze the group's business, asked a Federal court order restraining the companies from paying cash surrenders and loans to certificate holders. Said SEC: investors were told that Mutual shares are safer than war bonds, and accomplish the same purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINANCE: Quick Freeze | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

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