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...next assignment-Peleliu. It was the division's first strongly opposed landing and its bloodiest, hardest battle of the war. The Navy and air preparation had knocked out only a small part of the cleverly protected Jap installations. On the beach the marines were caught in a tremendous torrent of fire. The division took Peleliu at a cost of 6,000 casualties out of 23,000 men (of whom only 9,000 were infantry). The real tragedy was that the price had been paid in vain. Peleliu was to have been a base for the U.S. invasion...
Slowly the weight of two full Red regiments pushed the undermanned U.S. units back toward the pass. But at the pass, the G.I.s stuck. Time & time again, Red charges smashed against the Americans' guns. As the Reds rushed up reserves, frantic G.I. gunners manning 13 guns lobbed a torrent of 155-mm. and 105-mm. shells into masses of green-clad North Koreans trying to move up along the hillsides. But the Reds kept on coming. Two "Mansei" (the Korean equivalent of the Japanese "Banzai") charges rolled up against the U.S. positions-and broke...
...torrent whirls all the ages through either...
...world's greatest single source of electricity. When the President pushes a ceremonial button to start its newest generator (13th of 18 to be installed), Grand Coulee will be producing 1,404,000 kilowatts-enough to supply both Cleveland and Cincinnati with all their power. Yet this amazing torrent of energy will not satisfy the insatiable demand...
Approved by both Pakistan's Constituent Assembly and India's Parliament, the agreement outlined plans to protect the rights of minority peoples and to punish any who violated those rights. The mere signing of the agreement created a calm among both Moslems and Hindus, so that the torrent of refugees which swelled during recent communal riots (TIME, April 10) slowed to a trickle. Some of the refugees began to go back home, where the agreement assures them the return of any property they may have left behind. Said Nehru: "We have stopped ourselves at the edge...