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...Danube. The First became proudly known as the "Rhine & Danube" Army. He crossed the Rhone on D-day plus 15, when the crossing was actually planned for sometime between D plus 30 and D plus 60. His sappers and bridging equipment had not arrived, but he commandeered every boat, plank and carpenter for miles around, and put 10,000 men and 3,000 trucks across the river in 48 hours. He repeated this tour de force when he crossed the Rhine...
...what seemed to be a sure loser. Then Louis Johnson stepped in, raised enough money ($1,500,000) to pay for Harry Truman's whistle-stop campaign. Some of the men on whom Johnson put the bite were longtime Democrats; some were strong for one plank or another in Harry Truman's platform; some simply found it good business to be on good terms with the Administration (as others were supporting the G.O.P. for the same reason). Whatever their motives, Harry Truman-who puts great store by such things-has reason to be specially grateful to the following...
Confiscation and nationalization of major industries is a major plank in the Communist economic program, Chu explained, but "private enterprises not belonging to bureaucratic capitalists will not only be allowed to exist but will be encouraged...
...meeting also adopted a plank which called for the federal government to take a "positive constructive role" in atomic development for both war and peace, in regional flood control and water power development, and in large-scale low-cost public housing and clearance. The club felt that public housing would relieve the rent situation-without leaving the way open for unfair treatment of landlords for political reasons...
...Another plank stated: "We oppose any tax reduction which would either impede national defense or produce additional Federal deficits." The club also went on record as opposing general price control laws...