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...peace was not this valley's destiny. This valley was the gate to Tunis, 35 miles from the soldiers' hilltop. Of all the positions held by the Allies in Tunisia, these on the rim of the valley were the most important...
...Hill Beside the Valley. When early this month the British First Army pushed northward into hills on the valley rim, they found the going good. They took the high ground above Medjez-el-Bab. Up the nearby heights by mule pack they hauled artillery. With the artillery already in place west and south of Medjez-el-Bab, a great horseshoe of batteries covered the valley where it de bouches on the plain before Tunis. All the batteries pointed toward three objectives: the fortified hill known as Long Stop and the two hills in front of it. Without Long Stop, dominating...
...flash. Electric-eye cameras reveal the number of separate pulses within a single stroke. Another device (the fulchronograph) clocks the quickest stroke and measures the amount of current. Its heart is an ever-turning aluminum wheel, with hundreds of small strips of magnet steel projecting from its rim. Lightning, when it strikes, creates an electrical field in coils which magnetize the strips. When the fins are removed in the laboratory their magnetism is measured, gives the strength of the stroke charted...
...flight of James's photographs, flung down upon the idolaters by a publicity man, broke her reverie. The crowd yelled and scrambled for the pictures. Inside the theater, the feature ended and the expectant jitterbugs tightened up. Ushers moved to the rim of the orchestra pit and faced the audience. The curtain rose. There was Harry James...
Success Means the Ash Can. But that 175,000-ton gap might make the difference between success and defeat. Unless every U.S. citizen conserves his tires, unless the Army & Navy cut their needs to the rim, the nation's rubber reserves may be nonexistent by Christmas. Said Rubber Czar William Jeffers: "The country is not yet out of the critical stage." But Rubberman Jeffers, no crier of "Wolf! Wolf!," was optimistic, gaily predicted that U.S. factories would be producing 850,000 tons of synthetic a year within a twelvemonth-more than enough for all military needs...