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...fiercest battles were fought near Krivoi Rog, in the heart of the Dnieper bend. This devastated iron center also protected a German escape corridor across the southern Ukraine. The capture of Krivoi Rog would culminate the lower Dnieper campaign, enabling the Red flood to roll southward, cut off perhaps a score of German divisions...
...forces of bald, hard-driving General Ivan Konev had opened a breach 28 miles wide, 16 miles deep, soon pushed the wedge southward at a fast pace. By this week, his army had driven some 70 miles into the bulge, was pounding on the gates of Krivoi Rog, an important rail and iron center. Outflanked, the German troops in Dniepropetrovsk abandoned the great city, with its wrecked power plants and factories, for a desperate flight southward. Over them roared Stormoviks, strafing and bombing...
...huge Kharkov Tractor Works had been in partial operation for some months. Shipyards at Nikolaev on the Bug River are probably building much-needed vessels for Germany's merchant fleet plying between Rumanian ports and the threatened Crimea. The Germans are taking iron from mines at Krivoi Rog, manganese from Nikopol. The great Dnieper power dam-pride of prewar Russia-was partly wrecked just before the Red Army retreated across the Dnieper in September 1941, but in late 1942 the Germans were well along with repairs. At least in the richest part...
Following an extremely fast track down the precipitous pitches of the Cal. Ferner was clocked at 2:23 and 2:24.8. Tom Winship made eleventh place. Dune Reid and Will Cochran clinched thirteenth and fourteenth. The others, Bill Apthorp, Rog Wilson, and Braley Cameron didn't finish in the first...
Setting the pace was Dick Rondeau, who registered 40 points in the individual scoring race to win it hands down. In a four-team circuit last year, Yale's Rog Hazen, an unusually able skater, won the title with 14 and his nearest competitor had 11. Rondeau's points in a league of HOCKEY LEAGUE W. L. Pts. Dartmouth 8 0 16 Yale 5 3 10 Princeton 4 4 8 Harvard 3 5 6 Rrmy...