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...Germans continue to be annihilated at the present rate, they will be driven as far west as Smolensk by the spring thaw. Compared with Russia's gains in the past month, this is a considerable distance. But in terms of Germany's lightning drives from Smolensk to Bryansk and from Bryansk to the outskirts of Moscow, it is relatively small for the time spent. Yet the wishful thinking of the press has given birth to a widespread notion that the counter-attack is a large-scale rout, although any amateur pin-pusher can discover that the Soviets are doing...
Next morning. Mr. Jones checked the workmen's reports with a pipe map. Suddenly he saw what had happened. Off he dashed to close the valve. But it was too late. Some four million gallons of filthy water from the thaw-high Genesee had poured into Rochester drinking water. The city faced a typhoid epidemic...
...would also mean deepening Lake harbors (estimated cost: by opponents, $250,000,000; by supporters, $10,000,000). Another difficulty is that for five winter months each year the Seaway is not navigable; warships completed in Lake yards during the winter would be locked in until the spring thaw. Said the New York Times, scrutinizing both power and navigation problems: "The St. Lawrence project should be judged not as something vitally necessary in carrying out our defense program or aiding Great Britain but as one of many PWA undertakings that ought to be abandoned in favor of more urgent enterprises...
...Harry K. Thaw, eccentric 69-year-old murderer of Stanford White, who recently bought an old house in downtown Philadelphia, decided to warm it with a party, advertised in newspapers for guests, limited their visit "to ten minutes for men over 18-ladies over 16." He drew about 1,000 people, who received a pamphlet written by Thaw on the Belgian food crisis, listened to a five-piece orchestra play Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, gulped free soda pop, watched Thaw eat dinner in the kitchen, were ushered out soon after 9 p.m. by city detectives...
...Ready. The Prime Minister next revealed that as late as last January, Finnish Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim secretly advised the Allies that Finland "did not then require men, as his resources in man power were sufficient, in his opinion, to last until the thaw came. He did, however, say he would be very glad to have some 30,000 men in the month of May, but stipulated that they should be trained soldiers...