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...troop can take, and , which it is now holding. That is, the sergeant morosely explains, the Huns' artillery can fan a fly's tail in mid-flight if it is so foolish as to venture up the road. Now and then a burst of gunfire, flatter and nearer than the noise of the S.P.s signals a sally of German heavy tanks from Sauzette. They sneak out, fire a few rounds at our lighter armored cavalry cars and tanks, then rush back to cover under bursts of our noisy but ineffective reply." Somewhere along that road, between...
...German war seemed nearer, labor began to put forward more & more demands that the Little Steel formula be junked. The unions contended that even now the formula's pegging of wages on the basis of a 15% rise in the cost of living was ridiculous; that the "actual" living cost had rocketed 45% since January 1941. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics insists that living costs have gone up only 24%.) After the war, the unions fear they will lose the special wartime conditions that fattened pay envelopes : overtime, upgrading and night-shift premiums...
After it ends, the delegates will report their findings to their governments, after which, with all the preliminaries out of the way, the participating nations will get down to real business - with the war in Europe even nearer...
...London. U.S. Ambassador John Winant, Russian Ambassador Fedor Gusev and Sir William Strang, the three members of the European Advisory Commission, had held scores of meetings, examined hundreds of proposals, dictated thousands of words of notes, memoranda, dispatches. But to the eagerly watching world the three men seemed no nearer than ever to accomplishing their task-the drawing up of surrender terms for defeated Germany. London's well-informed Economist suspected that the Allies had failed to agree on a joint policy for the German armistice. Sternly it warned them: "No policy for Germany means, in fact, no policy...
Battlefields or no battlefields, the time to start the first trickle of reconversion was already past. Ever since the 1942 victory at Midway, Washington desks had bulged with reconversion plans. Now, with V-day much nearer, the plans were still in the desks...