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They had to claw their way along a mountainous, broken front of 20 miles. In the north the French, under Tunisian veteran General Alphonse Pierre Juin, drove the Germans from Mount Ferro (3,500 ft.), Mount Pagano (3,600 ft.) and Mount Pile (3,700 ft.). They slid into the village of Acquafondata, gained a hold on one of four roads to Cassino. In the central-southern sector, U.S. and Canadian soldiers took Mount Porchia (where 16 stretcher-bearers were killed), Mount Capraro, Mount Trocchio, the strongly held village of Cervaro. From Trocchio, they overlooked Cassino itself. They rushed down...
...Antanas Smetona, 69, Lithuania's first President (1919-20; 1926-36), first and only dictator (1926-40); suffocated in the burning of his son's house; in Cleveland. Short-bearded, long-mustached Newspaper Editor Smetona was a prime builder of the eastern Baltic's political spillikin-pile. Long an agitator for in dependence from Czarist Russia, he headed a successful putsch against Lithuania's pro-Soviet Russian Socialists in 1926, ten years later dissolved all opposition parties. He fled to the U.S. when Russia took over...
...factor may knock predictions into the junk pile - unpredictable 80-year-old Henry Ford. For months, he has diligently streamlined his company, getting back to his first principles of cheap cars and no frills (TIME, Oct. 11). His low-price fetish once cracked the industry's price structure wide open. It may do so again...
Army Engineers were sent to Ascension with the greatest secrecy in March 1942. In three months they converted the pile of volcanic rock into a base. Since then Wideawake Field has handled 5,000 planes...
Good Deeds. Outside the routine work of helping to run the Coast's harbor services, TR's deeds have been numerous, if not publicized. Alfred Miller, refrigerator serviceman, saw smoke trailing from a vent on a munitions ship. Sparks in a pile of sawdust had started a fire. In time's nick Miller sounded an alarm, got credit for preventing the kind of catastrophe which devastated Halifax when a munitions ship blew up in the harbor...