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...neither Americans nor British attained their full preliminary objectives as early as had been hoped. It was week's end before the Yanks drove through Trevieres to Sully, effected a firm juncture with the British and thus united the beachheads; meantime the British were still battling to close a vise around Caen and there set up an immovable roadblock against Nazi counterattack...
...made by hand: Thomas Jefferson kept a dozen nail makers busy at Monticello all the time, and it took as many man-hours to forge the nails for a house as it did to build it. Jeremiah Wilkinson's 1776 "invention"-putting a dozen headless tacks in a vise and hammering them all with one blow-was the talk of Rhode Island, and it was not until 1850 that a machine was invented to make "horse nails" tough enough to supplant the blacksmith...
...rubber production lulled many a U.S. citizen into the pleasant belief that the rubber-tired nation had rolled safely past the crisis point (TIME, Oct. 18). Last week, OPA's Tire Ration Chief, Sparks Bonnett, jolted them as roughly as a blowout on a curve. Said he: the vise-tight pinch in tires is just beginning...
...stunt, the Eagle put him on the air (with his head in a photographer's vise so he would not stray from the imperfect microphone) in 1922. A year later he was current-eventing steadily over WEAF. His fan mail included letters from happy housewives: at last they had an easily assimilated news and opinion source with which to confront their cocksure husbands. "Please tell me," they begged, "is he right, or are you?" Kaltenborn is certain that radio began the political education of women...
...that moment the potent, stubborn, self-seeking farm bloc was beaten. The vise which it had clamped on Congress, the Administration and the nation (TIME, July 20) was cracked. The vote permitted the Agriculture Department to sell 125 million bushels of Government-owned surplus wheat for fodder (to produce badly needed meat and eggs) at its own price (83? a bushel)-not the inflationary price that the farm bloc wanted. It released the $680,000,000 appropriation which the Department needs for its mammoth wartime food program. For every citizen concerned about feeding the United Nations and avoiding inflation, this...