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...Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co.: a cordless electric flatiron, heated while standing on a base. The base, instead of the iron, is plugged into an electric outlet...
...hospitable Muscovites could also look forward to other prospective callers. From London came a report that the U.S., Britain and Russia had opened conversations with Turkey about the Dardanelles. The Turks would probably have to make one of two concessions: 1) demilitarization of the straits to give Russia unchallenged outlet from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean; 2) the creation of a small Dardanelles-Bosporus state to be administered by an international body...
Antwerp, the greatest freight port on the continent of Europe (annual peacetime capacity: 23,500,000 tons), was capable of supplying all the Allied armies in the Low Countries, and it had been captured intact, six weeks ago. But it was useless so long as the Scheldt estuary, its outlet to the sea, was flanked by pockets of stubborn, German holdout troops. So the operation to clear the banks of the Scheldt had a triple-A priority...
...boasted of the "first comprehensive plan for Victory Day." Sample: "The signal is the ringing of all church bells and the tying down of whistles and sirens for a continuous signal.. . . Plans have been made by the Mayor to start a big parade. . . . This will act as an outlet for people's enthusiasm...
...Westward, Poland must expand to include "ancient Pomorze [Pomerania], Upper Silesia, East Prussia, with its broad outlet to the sea, and Polish outposts on the Oder." No plan for German dismemberment had gone as far as this: it would lop from prewar Germany a large (roughly 26,000 sq. mi.),populous (about 6,500,000), rich (coal and iron mines, farm lands) territory, most of which had not belonged to the Slavs since the 11th Century. It would push Poland's border to within 50 miles of Berlin...