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...wave of enlistments was no nine-day wonder. Every time it receded a new bulletin from the Pacific helped roll it up again. Good news or bad-either kind made men want to join...
...special communique from Adolf Hitlor's field headquarters said German troops in a nine-day siege climaxed by bloody street fighting had overwhelmed the Russian defenders of Kerch and that "the entire eastern part of the Crimes is in our hands...
...attackers carried on a systematic nine-day aerial and artillery bombardment so concentrated that no defense in the world could remain intact. It was designed to blast a corridor just a few hundred yards wide. When the corridor was opened, troops poured through, and the battle changed, the Germans said, from assault to pursuit. The Germans drove south and east...
...Russia's chief Arctic supply base. (There were unconfirmed and probably untrue reports that these planes had come from a British carrier in the Arctic Ocean.) One of the many Finnish ski patrols trying to cut the Leningrad-Murmansk railway made its way back to Finland after a nine-day trip and reported it had dynamited the railroad...
...position. For on him, to his pained surprise, was hung the tag of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Stettinius and at least three of his fellow boardmen, it was being said, were present or onetime minions of the House of Morgan. By itself this circumstance would have been a nine-day wonder to be pondered and forgotten, along with Mr. Roosevelt's sundry other and short-lived flirtations with Business. What made it a crumb under the President's collar last week was the great debate on Neutrality in Congress...