Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against the Bulge. The Red High Command struck on a 150-mile front in White Russia, against the Wehrmacht's easternmost bulge. Crisscrossed by swift rivers, small lakes, marshes and dense birch and pine woods, these lush plains accounted for most of the Russian soil still held by the invader. There last week the blue dusk of early northern summer lasted all night...
...make sure of swift reconversion, WPB emphasized that anyone may make anything if facilities are free of war work, and materials are available. Thus, Donald Nelson said, the U.S. would avoid the "grave danger of shackling the U.S. with a regimented economy...
...Nazis' reaction was small-scale and local, but swift and bitter. Infantry and tanks of the 77th, ordered to withdraw-when it was too late, tried to fight their way through the 9th's roadblock. The U.S. commander honored them with a "serenade": every gun within range opened up at maximum rate of fire. The carnage chilled even the victors' marrow. But the enemy's attempted sortie failed...
...Radio, the press's light-swift competitor, got its biggest break and made the most of it (see RADIO). As it almost always must, radio got the jump on the Big Story. Then it proceeded to steal the show. U.S. newspapers got much of their eyewitness copy from radio reporters...
What the newspapers lacked in eyewitness stories they almost made up in swift and excellent picture coverage. First to get to London with photographs of the landings was Acme's stocky, persuasive Bert Brandt (see cut). He would have had a notable scoop if his negatives had not been pooled. Cameraman Brandt took no chances on couriers, made three hitchhiking boat transfers in the rough Channel before reaching England, finished his journey in a jeep. His pictures of the invasion beaches were the first to reach...