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...buildings had received a direct hit or two during the hundreds of raids in the past 14 months, but the Japs themselves blew up their subs and the Zero wings and tails in the hangar were damaged by strafing, not bombing. Bomb hits had scarcely affected the Allis-Chalmers tractor which sat on the concrete floor of the hangar. Not one of the 6-in. coast artillery guns had been hit by bombs, though they had been prime targets for months. Only one dual-purpose 70-mm. anti-aircraft gun was blown up and there is some question about what...
...Well before sunup the Liebers were out in the barn, snapping the stanchions on their Holsteins, switching on the 20-year-old milking machine. They paused briefly for a hearty farm breakfast on the cool screened porch. Then the Liebers went out to the oat fields, father on the tractor, 14-year-old Wayne on the binder. They tussled with the Mexican fireweed that had got into the oats, stopped to oil the binder, took a swig from the canvas water jug, worked...
...Arkansas the Big Inch broke, reducing the East's oil supplies even more (see p. 18). At Dupo, Ill., near St. Louis, one of the nation's largest freight yards (8,000 cars move there daily) was under water. Production was halted at a huge caterpillar tractor works in Peoria...
When the Russians recaptured Kharkov last week, they found that the huge Kharkov Tractor Works had been in partial operation for some months. Shipyards at Nikolaev on the Bug River are probably building much-needed vessels for Germany's merchant fleet plying between Rumanian ports and the threatened Crimea. The Germans are taking iron from mines at Krivoi Rog, manganese from Nikopol. The great Dnieper power dam-pride of prewar Russia-was partly wrecked just before the Red Army retreated across the Dnieper in September 1941, but in late 1942 the Germans were well along with repairs. At least...
...Near Rimbey, Alberta, rescuers of snowbound, frostbitten Alexander Swanson, anxious not to disturb him, hitched a tractor to his shack, dragged it 38 miles to a hospital while Swanson stayed...