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...adjacent mines. All these properties are now owned by Idarado Corp. and have been leased to Metals Reserve on a royalty basis. In addition to lead and copper, the Government especially hopes to get 5,600 tons of zinc the first year. Long John's tunneling tempo was needed again...
...Tempo, Timetable. Long John's speed and success come from his habit of planning everything to a split minute. His "muck trains" tote out debris on a rail road timetable basis; his sweating rockhogs know exactly how far they must bore. (Long John expects to get through in four months.) To help his men Long John several years ago designed and built a huge, seven-ton drill carriage which uses six bits instead of four. Added incentives are high wages and bonuses, three-shift operations. Most effective of all, Long John is the kind his men understand...
...stood adamantly for: 1) a purge of ex-Vichyite officers; 2) a modernization of the armed forces along the lines he had vainly preached .for two decades before the fall of France. General Henri Honore Giraud had agreed in principle, but he wanted control of the scope and tempo of reform. Over these issues the negotiations deadlocked while the Generals kept apart. Then, one evening in the quiet of his home, General Georges Catroux brought De Gaulle and Giraud together again...
Twice the Italian garrison had been invited to surrender. Admiral Gino Pavesi, senior Italian officer, and his men clung to Pantelleria's 32 sq. mi. of volcanic rock. Each refusal increased the tempo of attack. First the Spadillo airfield was blown to bits. Then the island's one good harbor, a nest for E-boats and submarines harassing the Sicilian straits, was smashed. Low-flying planes bounced their bombs down ramps leading to underground hangars. "Pattern bombing" crushed gun emplacements...
...Allied planes over Italy, Sardinia, Sicily and Pantelleria last week were probably harbingers of invasion. But the tempo and concentration of the attacks were achievements in themselves. Unfolding in the Mediterranean was a carefully devised, fiercely executed pattern of strategic bombing...