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...wall 14 feet thick and 45 feet high. Next day the Ninth's 29th Division assaulted the cita del with 755 and flamethrowers. When the Yanks finally got in, they found a few German dead. The other defenders had run out, during the night, through a tunnel that led to the woods...
Like Frightened Animals. "I was in Berlin during that last great American [air] attack. I sought safety in an underground railway tunnel which is one of Berlin's 'safest' shelters. Thousands of people were packed together there. Then the first bombs came. The ground heaved, lights flickered. People scrambled about like frightened animals. . . . The lights in the tunnel went out. . . . Some pocket torches were lighted, but proved useless in the cloud of chalky dust that came welling through the tunnel. It penetrated eyes, mouth, nose and ears. People knelt on the railway tracks and prayed...
Screams in the Subway. "Then a heavy bomb crashed through the tunnel roof . . . and a wave of cold air, followed by dust, swept over us. In the distance someone yelled for a doctor. The clamor for help was taken up by many voices, which were drowned in the next wave of bombs, more fearful than the first. 'For heaven's sake, stop it!' a woman screamed somewhere in the darkness. 'Shut up with that,' broke in a rough man's voice. A stir ran through the tightly packed people...
...last the crush was so bad that customs officers asked Windsor police to detain U.S. shoppers until the jam on the Detroit side cleared. Then they were released in groups of 50 aboard the Detroit-Windsor tunnel bus. On the U.S. side, shoppers had to stand in line while customs men opened all packages, weighed the meat, collected ration points and duty. In one day last week 17,500 U.S. shoppers were examined, 1,200 had to surrender 39,000 ration points and $1,400 in duty. U.S. Customs Collector Martin Bradley had to add 15 men to his staff...
...problems in jet-plane design are 1) its high fuel consumption, 2) its approach to supersonic (i.e., faster than sound) speeds. (The Navy announced last week that it was building a 750-m:.p.h. wind tunnel to test jet planes.) At high speeds, the jet engine is more efficient than a conventional engine; it uses little more fuel at 500 m.p.h. than at 400. But because the jet engine usually must operate at maximum capacity from the start, it has been relatively inefficient at low speeds. Moreover, to cut air resistance, the P-59 has extremely thin wings which have...