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...Navy job, because it is in a Navy theater. But although most of the work is being done by servicemen, the credit for its success belongs mainly to a group of 25 civilian experts from the Foreign Economic Administration, who are headed by tall, weatherbeaten Knowles Ryerson. Starting from scratch little more than a year ago, Ryerson and his men have furnished enough seed, fertilizer, machinery, tools and sound advice to bring the farms up to a high level of efficiency, despite obstacles that would make many farmers down tools...
Down Go the Ships. With Govorov's southern flank cutting toward the coast south of Tallinn, the Nazis took to the sea to escape. Many of the scratch fleet of evacuation ships were sunk by Red Fleet aircraft before they got to sea. The seizure of Tallinn (directly opposite Helsinki) was a great naval victory, for it pave the Red Fleet control of the Gulf of Finland and, after three years' virtual blockade, a chance to operate in the Baltic. The Red Fleet seized the opportunity at once, and landed marines who captured Paldiski, west of Tallinn...
...Alaska, and to Australia via Hawaii. Most daring of all: the dream of pushing on across the Mediterranean over India, and linking Pan Am's Atlantic and Pacific routes into a globe-circling system. If & when other U.S. airlines get their overseas certificates, they will have to scratch hard and deep to live in Pan Am's tightly webbed world...
Noted with dismay among the vagaries of the hurricane was its indiscriminate will in tearing down Harvard's shade trees but leaving the owl-eyed shack on Bow and Mt. Auburn without a scratch...
...favorite stories of the hard-boiled 101st is about Don Pratt's first parachute jump, when the general's husky young aide was assigned to jump with him and pick up the pieces. General Pratt landed without a scratch and picked up the aide, who had broken...