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...Moreover, we think that real standards of living depend not only on what is in the pay envelope, but on what we can buy with it. The only effective protection the American worker has against so-called foreign competition is not a tariff barrier against foreign goods, but efficient production at home and a decent standard of living abroad...
Within one spring week it suddenly seemed that the war across the world was mounting to a climax and a breaking point. Germany's legendary Rhine barrier was forced in five growing bridgeheads; a storm of steel and fire was building up in the East. Defeat was staring Germany in the face, and the Germans had nothing with which to stave...
Winston Churchill, squinting out over his cigar from an observation post back of valleyed Xanten, peered into the darkness as Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's troops thunderously transformed the Rhine from a barrier into just another stream. Then, all morning, he watched the big parade of aircraft sprinkling colored parachute blossoms on the green fields over the river...
...Simpson threat in the north (see above}, let part of Lieut. General George S. Patton's dashing Third Army out of sight for a night along the Rhine last week. Using no chemical smoke, but combining the elements of speed and daring, the Third quietly jumped the barrier near Worms that night. It did not lose a man, did not draw a shot until the crossing had been made solid...
...their men: Major General William M. ("Bud") Miley, commander of the 17th Airborne, taking his outfit into combat for the first time, and Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, veteran airborne fighter and commander of the Airborne Army's XVIII Corps. They had led their troops across the enemy barrier on bridges of silk...