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...found we needed it for tires. Then, when we found we had all we needed for tires, we were told that cotton netting used in the Pacific was rotting and we'd have to use nylon there. Then it was decided that knapsacks could be made much lighter with nylon...
According to the Mission's letterheads (though not in fact), the Mission had a staff of doctors and nurses, listed an honorary committee which included (without their knowledge or consent) Jack Dempsey, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Ralph W. Budd and other big names. Sometimes, in lighter vein, the missioners got money for their charities by selling punchboards -all of them well rigged against the player...
...compromise between the lighter, nimbler General Sherman (M4) and the demand for a weapon which could stand up to the Germans' heaviest. Toe-to-toe, the Shermans never could. They had to count on getting around on the Tigers' flanks, where the Germans are more vulnerable. In the kind of confined infighting the U.S. Army ran into four months ago, end runs were seldom possible. The smaller Shermans were badly battered...
...days, the Yanks took 4,000 prisoners. On the fourth day, they were within 10½ miles of Cologne and had it under artillery fire. The rate of advance was much better than in last November's offensive on this sector, and U.S. casualties were pronounced lighter than expected...
...effort since he entered College last November with the Class of '48b, fresh from Tabor Academy, where he had copped the national interscholastic shot-put title. Previously during the past term, he had won easily at Tufts, Andover, and Exeter, switching in the two prep-school meets to the lighter 12 pound schoolboy shot...