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...home, there was ominous news. A new kind of crisis had arisen, not unsolvable, but vexsome. The torrent of war supplies was thinning, partly because of titanic quantities chewed up by the war machine, partly because of manpower shortages in the plants. War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes warned the U.S. that the trickle of reconversion to civilian goods might have to be stopped altogether. The new icebox, the new car and the civilian helicopter were no longer just around the corner. Neither was peace...
...with tanks had failed to consider these obstacles, failed to consider the skill and determination of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's armies. German tanks were still able to counterattack. They contrived to drive the Eighth from a small bridgehead across the Fiumicino River swollen into a deep, swift torrent by steady rains...
Dribbles of truth in a gushing torrent of rumor gave a veiled outline of the Germans' departure from the Balkans. On a front which a month ago had been held by 100 divisions, the Nazis now had left 15 Hungarian and 35 German divisions, but 25 Rumanian, 25 Bulgarian had departed, some of them to fight on the other side. Now the Germans were desperately rushing new defenders, scraped up somehow, to hold at the Danube...
...C.N.R. terminal last week, 10,000 people surged forward to welcome him with flowers and posters saying: "Bienvenue, Camillien Houde!" (Welcome, Camillien Houde!). Hoarsely they sang Il a gagné ses é paulettes, French Canadian equivalent of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Houde burst into a torrent of French: "I believe that someone would have preferred to see me back in a dress suit, lying in satin, rather than back alive...
...fact, one representative said, the industry had been getting an increasing amount of war work.* Also there was no way to guarantee the present first-year production estimate of 2,150,000 cars. The deciding factor will be whether victory in Europe comes in a trickle or a torrent...