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...nations of eastern Europe, free and secret elections were still promised. Angered and fearful, a group of Bulgarian peasants told an American correspondent how an armed 23-year-old Communist mayor had lumped their long-held acreages and plowed the boundaries under...
Coverdale explained this attitude as part of a long-held antimonopoly philosophy. Am Ex, he said, had joined the 16 procompetition airlines in their original declaration of policy to CAB, but kept away from their original public statements because it feared that the 16 neophyte world flyers were out for unbridled competition. Now, he concluded, Am Ex had decided they all favored competition without chaos...
...paratroops boxed them in by landing in their rear. From Rekata Bay on Santa Isabel Island, east of Vella Lavella, the Japs evacuated a long-held seaplane base-the third position they had abandoned in less than a month.* Though the heart of Japan's defense was still untouched and intact, the fatty outer layer was shrinking...
...began, with an artillery barrage. The Moscow front lay under a white blanket of snow. Cossack cavalrymen wrapped their horses' hoofs in burlap to deaden the sound and get a better footing on hard crust. Artillery was mounted on skis. On their first plunge into the deep and long-held German defenses the Russians reached the village of Velikie Luki, 90 miles from the border of Latvia...
...This step is being taken," the statement said," in accordance with a long-held belief of both the University and the Massachusetts General Hospital that the care and treatment of medical specialties can be more efficiently handled as part of a large institution of general scope than in smaller individual units...