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...views about the Groza Government have been well known to the Russians since they removed the Radescu Government early this year and installed the present regime." Next, United Press, in a Bucharest dispatch filed abroad to avoid Rumanian censorship, reported that strong-arm Andrei Vishinsky, ace Russian trouble shooter, had given King Michael just two hours to dismiss Radescu, install Groza...
Pancho Villa, famed Mexican revolutionary of a generation ago, would have been proud to know that Gimbel's Manhattan department store put his pearl-handled six-shooter on sale...
Before a joint session of the powerful National Defense Council and the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, the Generalissimo delivered an epochal address on foreign policy. It was the logical sequence to the treaty of friendship and alliance negotiated in Moscow by his dynamic brother-in-law and trouble-shooter-in-chief, Premier T. V. Soong (see INTERNATIONAL...
...when 100 B-29s took off on the first 1,500-mile raid on Tokyo. (A coordinated carrier strike had been called off because of 1) the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea and 2) the alarm inspired by increasing Kamikaze attacks.) By January 1945, when Trouble-Shooter LeMay came out of China to take over the Marianas operations, three wings composed of about 300 B-29s were operating or being organized, and 14 missions had been flown. The China-based force was later transferred to the Marianas...
...tool (until now a military secret) is a tube which looks like a pea shooter. It has a waterproofed electrode which heats metal electrically to 6,000-10,000° F., and a jet which shoots a stream of pure oxygen, slicing rapidly through the molten plate...