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Swooping down on a bridge at Dillingen, east of Ulm, the U.S. Seventh Army's 12th Armored Division ripped the fuse out of a 5,000-lb. demolition charge under the bridge, crossed the Danube River and pressed on toward Augsburg. On the road beyond Nurnberg. other units of the Seventh were more than halfway to Regensburg...
Later the main weight of the air attacks shifted to rail centers in western and southern Germany. The yards at Nurnberg, packed to 95% of their 3,000-car capacity, were heavily hit. On one shattering day, when a total of 7,000 planes were over Germany, many small "task forces" were split off to attack secondary rail lines and small marshaling yards...
...show, on Manhattan's WNEW (2-2:15 p.m. Sunday), is presided over by a schoolteacher-bespectacled, balding Maxwell Nurnberg. He explains the origins of words, dramatizes the English language and its common mistreatment, and reports in relaxed English, the outstanding errors of the week. To listeners whose contributions he uses, he sends $5 and a copy of his popularized English textbook.* To the people who made the errors, he sends the textbook alone...
...Teacher Nurnberg has sent copies of his book to Winston Churchill, Major George Fielding Eliot and George V. Denny Jr., moderator of Town Meeting of the Air. Speaking in Parliament, Churchill had said: "Everyone can have their opinion about that." Major Eliot had mentioned the possibility of "some climatic event-probably a full-scaled Allied offensive." Denny, trying to clear up an ambiguity, had carefully spelled out for a member of his audience the word "its"-with an apostrophe. Then he innocently added: "Young lady, note the importance of grammar...
...Fleet as an offensive threat. Since the outbreak of the war the German Fleet has been whittled from 18 major warships to a fighting six. They are: the pocket battleship Lutzow, the 26,000-ton battleship Scharnhorst, the never-in-action aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, the three light cruisers Nurnberg, Leipzig and Emden...