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...cold steel flashed and the enemy was hurled back. U.S. tanks which had rumbled into the battle, formed up and slashed two miles into the German's positions. The beachhead looked sounder than it had for days...
Once Cassino fell, the Gustav Line would have to fold. With sounder timing, that should have happened in the first week of the Nettuno landing. But somehow, almost encircled, Cassino held. Result: when the beachhead soldiers pushed forward they were driving against no rear area disorganized and road-clogged with retreat. They were banging their heads against a well-organized, coolly conducted, unfettered line of resistance...
...sailing, perpetual commodore of the International Star Yacht Racing Association; in Manhattan. When the Star class of sloops (overall length 22 ft. 8¾ in.; beam 5 ft. 8¼ in.; draft approximately 3 ft. 4 in.) was designed in 1911, high-collared, Long Island Sounder Corry registered his Little Dipper as No.1. He won some 500 trophies, taught hundreds of amateur sailors, in 1939 was chairman of the international Star races at Kiel...
...Much sounder, as fact and propaganda, were the sobering statements of Army and civilian production men who began a tour of war plants to whip up nagging enthusiasm. Said Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson of the War Production Board: "It would be folly to let [early production feats] lull us into a sense of security. As long as war output is short of requirements, we have every cause for worry...
Opinion definitely divided on the touchy question of gold. Some termed the White plan "sounder," pointed out that, since the bancor is nonconvertible to gold, the Keynes Clearing Union might overexpand credit. Keynes himself terms his plan "expansionist," but points out that the risks of deflation (such as was experienced in the '30s) are just as great...