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Major William Mallory, onetime Yale ('24) footballer, studied the huge map of northern Italy in his headquarters, noted that the wide Po River had remarkably few bridges. All the German supplies for the fighting front, all the raw materials for war industries in the Po Valley, had to funnel through some two dozen rail and road spans. Major Mallory drew his plan, presented it to his commander, Major General John K. Cannon of the Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force...
...that period California will become in many ways the most significant of all the United States. First, its war job, already enormous, will be vastly greater when the German war ends, and it becomes the funnel through which most of the U.S. war effort will be poured. Second, its postwar problems seem likely to dwarf those of the other 47 States, for its main efforts have been in airplane-making and shipbuilding-the two most overexpanded industries, the two which will probably be cut back the deepest when the war ends. If California can keep its millions at work when...
Supplies for two divisions were to begin flowing in at once. At week's end it was estimated that "a few weeks" would suffice to make the port a funnel for the great flood of supplies needed to. sustain General Montgomery's offensive...
...north, in a long thin funnel, white to greasy green in color, the storm poured through, with thunderous roar and a long trail of smoke like an express train. It hit Joetown, then Oakdale, then swept Pleasant Hill. Fifteen of the 25 houses toppled as if they had been stepped on. Stoves, mattresses and tables poured down onto Route 19. Porches and roofs, caught in the swirl, splashed in the debris of Pleasant Hill, and then the tornado ground on through West Virginia...
...valley. They widened and deepened the channels of Stony Creek, the Conemaugh and the Little Conemaugh, straightened curves, built concrete banks up to 67 ft. high. They spent $8,670,000 all told. Result: swift-flowing, unobstructed channels that are calculated to carry off any floods that may funnel into the valley...