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...snow, winds and subzero temperatures last week slowed the greatest long-distance movement of holiday travelers on record. Rail-riding Gremlins (who were harrying railroad operations long before the Wright brothers ever flew) were out in force. They clogged switches with snow, short-circuited signal lights, froze steam connecting lines between cars, iced the rails on steep grades, drank all the coffee in dining cars. Morning after morning the swank Twentieth Century Limited slid into Manhattan two to four hours late. On many another train, four to 13 hours late, passengers stood in vestibules, slept in aisles, heaped baggage...
...They emerged like cats from everywhere, knives between their teeth. Flares did not frighten them. They broke into our right flank. Then the terrible thing happened that froze the blood of all of us. ... Men, women and children flung themselves into the attack...
...Army soldiers have boots of thick leather, or of greenish-yellow felt, known as Valenkis. Last winter those boots saved them from the fate of thousands of German soldiers who froze to death or were crippled by the cold. This winter Russian boots will walk on the faces of thousands of dead Germans...
Squeeze All Around. Some big milk distributors-notably in New York and Duluth-Superior-were squeezed too when OPA froze fluid milk and cream prices last May at abnormally low March levels. Under the price law, OPA could not then freeze butter prices, which jumped upward and tried to drag milk prices along. But for the distributors, the Government provided subsidies of $1 million a month -temporary hush money until OPA and the Agriculture Department could decide on the least evil of three: 1) raise milk a cent a quart; 2) lower the average price to farmers; 3) continue paying...
...Berlin's radio complained that in the Stalingrad region the temperature had dropped to 29° F. below zero. Floating ice clogged the Volga, stopping Soviet shipping for the winter and robbing Hitler of the only bitter satisfaction he might have received from the whole Stalingrad adventure. Radiators froze; narrow-treaded German tanks slid along weakly on their bellies; breechblocks became stiff; transmission oil jelled...