Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carol of Rumania, now of Mexico, who with Mistress Magda has been trying off & on for two years to get into the U.S., hired a U.S. pressagent to give him a build-up as a democrat. The builder-upper: Manhattan's supersmart Russell Birdwell. Said a Birdwell associate: "The campaign hasn't been laid out yet." But to U.S. newspapers went the best photo of Magda in a publicitycoon...
...Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, key man of Mediterranean defense, supposedly has 13 divisions in northern Italy busy digging defenses across the top of the boot. Another seven in the south, under Rommel-hating Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, soon may be joining Rommel. An indication that Nazi strength in upper Italy may have been exaggerated came from a London Daily Express correspondent. He slipped into Italy from Switzerland, found "a trifling German army" in the region of Milan. One possibility: Rommel has his troops well dug into the border mountains, is policing the cities with a skeleton force...
...regiment had fought off day attacks. It had been sleepless for two nights. Now it had not only hope but a deep and bitter hatred. There were a great many Americans killed and wounded when the Germans had the upper hand. There were dead men who had been old buddies of the survivors, who had trained with them at home and fought successfully with them in Sicily. There is still fierce fighting for this bridgehead, but this regiment will yet avenge its dead...
...rough way of judging lack of vitamin A is to examine the skin, look for pebbly or horny areas on the face and upper arms or yellowish, thickened spots on the eyeballs. Dr. Henry Borsook of the California Institute of Technology last year used these criteria in examining hundreds of Lockheed workers, concluded that "nearly every subject showed evidence of vitamin A deficiency (past or present...
...consigned some 200,000 men in 18 divisions to Italy. The bulk of these were probably in the north, under the command of that master of delay, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. His first task: to preserve from Italian sabotage and Allied air attack the three railway, routes into upper Italy from Austria and Yugoslavia, the interior railways, roads and airdromes without which the German armies could not long be supported. Rommel's eventual task: to hold the mountains and passes of northern Italy against Allied armies at these gates to the Reich...