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...Distribute orders so that a few large companies (such as Bethlehem, where S. W. O. C. has tried unsuccessfully so far to get a contract) are not permitted to pile up backlogs while smaller mills lie idle...
...Baker took Lyman Bullard's pass for the first Freshman tally in the opening period, and Dave Baldwin put the '44 sextet ahead by a 2 to 0 margin later on when he scored from a pile-up in front of the Nobles' nets. In the second period neither team counted, although the schoolboys, who sorely missed the services of their center, Neddie Harding, spent most of their time bottled up inside their own blue line. Baldwin scored again in the third, and the final Crimson marker was produced by Al Evarts later in the period...
...from the skies by mankind. What the Nazis had done to tiny Guernica in the Spanish war, to Warsaw by degrees and to a section of Rotterdam in one short blast, the Germans now did to Coventry. In the morning, what had been a thriving city was a smoldering pile of rubble where dazed, stunned survivors wandered aimlessly, and rescue parties from other cities scrabbled in the ruins to dig out hundreds buried dead and alive...
Then the Government's PRM (Party of the Mexican Revolution) came out with a fantastic story, which Almazan denied, of a Nazi-backed Almazanista plot to overthrow the Government. From a pile of swastika-sprinkled documents it said it had decoded papers accounting for 12,000 cases of ammunition and eight knocked down planes, smuggled in off a Nazi freighter. Maps were produced showing Almazanista military centres and broadcasting stations. Almazan's strength was put at 250,000 men under onetime Labor Boss Luis M. Morones, backed by a Nazi warship and 14 more planes. Police uncovered plans...
...caused than the Luftwaffe has accomplished in London since the war began. Scarcely a building in the entire city was unscarred. "I had noticed a young couple kissing in an automobile. . . . They are somewhere under there now," stuttered a chalk-faced newsboy, pointing in the street to a mountainous pile of masonry that minutes before had been Bucharest's elite, 13-story Carlton apartment house. More than 300 were believed buried in its ruins. A few gained the air-raid cellar and called frantically for aid over a still live telephone wire. Then the oil tanks of the central...