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...ground on. By week's end they had advanced ten miles, were 14 miles from Pescara, where the shortest transpeninsular roads cut westward through the Apennines toward Rome. But the Germans were by no means routed along the Adriatic. They had nasty machine-gun nests on every roadside slope up to Pescara. They posted expendables in every village. They counterattacked; at one place, Orsogna, they turned back an Eighth spearhead...
...would probably hold the finest breed to be Santa Gertrudis strain out of Afrikanders which he helped develop on the King Ranch in Texas. Some of us on the commercial side of cow business insist and prove by our records that a crossbred Shorthorn on Hereford from the western slope of the Rockies (area is important) feeds out better than any other animal. But the leading breed in numbers of breeders, numbers of head, range coverage, which tops the Chicago market about 85% of the time, is Hereford...
...Total July munitions production was up 3%. For months the production curve had edged upward by minuscule degrees, had fallen well below the ambitious schedules. To WPB officials, the July figures indicated that production had finally broken out of the summer plateau, was once more headed up the slope...
Lieutenant Robert Cutler was about to lead our L Company in an assault on the lower slopes of this ridge. On our left was another hill, half green where grape vineyards had been planted and half yellow where wheat was planted. Up this slope Morehouse and K Company were now attacking, and we could see their red tracer bullets shooting very prettily into the green of the grape vines. Thrush! Wham! a shell with terrific velocity flew over our heads through the pass...
...direct them on the route you took toward the town. Then I'll bring the whole battalion forward." In the middle of the night Mastyl and his seven men returned. Halfway out, said Mastyl, he had been machine-gunned. He tried to work his men around a slope on the blind side of the gun, but immediately ran into another. "We couldn't get past," he told Major Horner. "I thought I'd better come back...