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During the depression Davis made two profitable discoveries: 1) that good newspapermen are usually bad businessmen, and 2) that good businessmen who don't know the first thing about newspapering often itch to run a paper. Mixing this knowledge with a gift of the gab, he has since juggled millions of dollars worth of newspaper investments in Miami, New Orleans, Chattanooga, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis and points between and beyond...
...press has changed with the economic times. It was free in the days of small business, says Nebraska-born Lasch, when "the tramp printer and ambitious editor marched in the van of westward migration. . . . Every party, every faction had its own newspaper. A shoestring and the gift of gab were almost all a man needed to launch one." When business grew big, "personal journalism gave way to the corporation and the chain." The press became "an integral part of the economic structure. . . . Business had run politics and politics had run the press. Now the newspaper, as part of business, helped...
...wide sweep and were clawing their way towards El Hamma. Rommel sent German armor to bend back this threatening arm. Allied armor and an "unprecedented" onslaught of aerial power met the German column. So terrific was the air attack that even veteran Germans wilted. Only 20 miles from Gabès, the column drove on, threatening to close Rommel's corridor of retreat (see map). At that juncture, Montgomery shifted and struck again at the Mareth Line...
Djebel el Kreroua. The hill was Patton's most advanced position at one point on the Gafsa-Gabès road. U.S. troops who had fought without sleep for 48 hours seized it, then barely had time to scratch out shallow foxholes before 88-mm. cannon began blasting at them from German tanks in the pass below and from artillery in overlooking hills. The U.S. troops were armed only with rifles and machine guns, with which they rattled away at enemy infantry trying to follow the Axis tanks through the valley. Cut off by the German cannonading, the Americans...
...coordinated operations on land, in the air, on the sea. For the moment, the air offered their major opportunity. Allied planes had the edge over the Luftwaffe. Axis positions, concentrated as they are, are an airman's oyster. Axis ports are few: Bizerte, Tunis, Sousse, Sfax and Gabés-none of them large, all within 200 miles of each other, all within easy bombing range of Allied airdromes. Perhaps aircraft can lay the oyster open for earthbound troops before Tunisia dries...