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Same day Messrs. Green and Murray, up before the Senate Labor committee, wheeled into range of Mr. McNutt and laid down a barrage calculated to destroy every living thing for miles around. Murray shot the heaviest load, dismissing most of McNutt's proposals as "sheer nonsense," and saying flatly...
...glimpse of the bomb damage wrought on stately Canterbury Cathedral-the day before the Nazis bombed the historic town in the heaviest daylight raid on England in two years...
...piper skirled a march for the Highlanders in the British front line. Hell broke over El Alamein: from hundreds of hidden positions artillery laid down the heaviest barrage yet seen in the desert. After six hours infantrymen moved toward the Germans' shattered positions. R.A.F. bombers and fighters attacked with the ground forces. The advance units found their way through their own minefields, marched gingerly into the German fields. Soon lights began to twinkle close to the ground: they were guttering flames in gasoline tins, marking alleys through the German fields for the main body of troops and tanks...
...mile round trip to Italy's industrial north. They hammered again at battered Genoa. They pounded Turin, home of the royal arsenal. They made a daylight raid at Milan, which they visited again at night, dropping more bombs into the widespread fires. It was the heaviest, and most businesslike, aerial plastering Italy had got since the war began, and it would probably continue. British losses in the three days: eleven planes...
...Heaviest (but not fattest) person on record was Miles Darden. When he died in 1857 in Henderson County, Tenn., he weighed a trifle over 1,000 lb. But Darden was 7½ ft. tall. If he had been of the same proportions as rotund Mrs. Pontico, he would have weighed an even...