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...only serious but "desperate." On good flying days, U.S. and Australian fighter planes harried the enemy armor and communications, but in the rainy monsoon season, good flying days are too few. In spite of continued B-29 bombing north of the 38th parallel and effective raids on the Han River crossings, the enemy seemed to be keeping his supply lines in fair order. And MacArthur's communiques constantly mentioned the grave danger of envelopment by Communists from the Wonju-Chungju area, of southward thrusts from Communist beachheads at Utchin and other points on the east coast. To exorcise these...
...drove jeeps along the sandy river flats to ferrying points on the Han River several miles upstream from the shattered bridge. There beetle-like rowboats jammed to the gunwales with refugees were plying back & forth across the broad, shallow stream...
...black sedan accompanied by several jeeploads of American and Korean officers, MacArthur drove north toward the narrow Han River. On the south side of the Han the confused and battered South Korean army was vainly trying to form a new defense line. All along the road the general's car brushed through hundreds of South Korean soldiers and mobs of tired, frightened refugees. Many of the soldiers saluted and cheered as the American convoy passed. Even the refugees stopped and cheered. Said MacArthur's chief of staff, Major General Edward M. Almond: "The troops are ready and willing...
...convoy halted once, a few miles south of the Han, within sight of enemy-held Seoul. MacArthur jabbed toward the city with his corncob pipe. To General Almond he said: "What do you say we push up there, eh Ned?" The party pushed on to a hill barely a mile from the 18th Century walls of Seoul. Clearly visible were towers of smoke from fires set by enemy shelling. Clearly audible was the crump of Communist mortars over the river. Below the hill a railroad bridge still stood intact, capable of supporting tanks and heavy trucks. Field glasses in hand...
...first six months of 1950, more han 2,000 newspaper employees lost their jobs as the result of staff cuts, newspaper mergers and failures. Meanwhile the number of monopoly newspaper towns increased. Alarmed at this trend, the American Newspaper Guild last week voted to go into the newspaper business itself to provide jobs and competition...