Word: voronezh
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...more survived. They lived to see the broad, green lowlands along the Don above Voronezh, or to climb the high bank below the city. Then they, too, died under the Russian fire. But more came. They lived to bring up machine guns, light artillery and mortars, heavy guns and tanks -the flesh and metal of the bridgeheads which the Germans at last secured east of the Don. Above them the Luftwaffe, flying in numbers usually stronger than the Red squadrons, ceaselessly pounded at the Red Army...
Timoshenko's Choice. Moscow this week confirmed Berlin's major claims: at some points the Germans had advanced 85 and 100 miles and more to the Don itself; German columns were converging toward the key city of Voronezh, just east of the Don, and midway between Moscow and Rostov on the all-important railway to the Caucasus...
...thousand tanks, 1,000 on each side, were reported clashing on one narrow sector around Voronezh amid a bedlam of bursting bombs and shells. The sky was full of planes, as many as 120 German fighters swarming out in a single formation...
Reported in the U. S. last week was a new method of fattening pigs, developed and practiced in Russia. U. S. S. R. scientists discovered that drawing blood from pigs makes them fat. In experiments conducted by the Voronezh Meat Combine, 44 pigs were bled periodically and in amounts according to body weight. Thirty-two control pigs were given identical food, shelter and treatment, but no bleeding. After seven weeks the bled pigs had gained an average of 3 lb. more than the others, 30 of them were fat enough to be classed as lard pigs. Only...