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...55th parallel-which also crosses Moscow-over the frosted spikes of southern Alaska, and rumbled southward to bore through the storms that lay down the spine of the Rockies. At 2 a.m., in the cold, sub-zero blackness eight miles above the earth, she found the telltale bend in the Missouri River on her radar, opened her bomb bays, and sent-not a bomb, but a long flash on her radio...
...They Never Served. By late afternoon the battle was almost over. A Sherman tank stood watchfully around the bend of the road at the head of the pass. On the slopes of the nearby hills, mortar crews and machine-gunners looked out over the valley, which was quiet now. Beyond the pass there was an eerie silence. All our outposts had withdrawn to prepared positions. The wounded had been removed from the field during the fighting, thanks to the heroic efforts of Army Medical Corpsmen who drove jeeploads of groaning soldiers back from the front, heedless of enemy fire...
...first three or four Red patrols which tried to cross in broad daylight were wiped out or beaten back, but large numbers of Reds apparently waded the river at night. Some of them disguised in U.S. green fatigue uniforms, attacked U.S. units from the rear. West of Taejon bend, under heavy U.S. fire, the invaders established footholds on the south bank, one at Samgyo, another at nearby Kongju...
Last week in Washington the United States Tax Court gave N.Y.U.'s macaroni a fresh bend. It ruled that the C. F. Mueller Co. (as reorganized for N.Y.U.'s benefit) was not exempt from paying federal corporation income taxes, owed Uncle Sam $136,438.62 for a four-month period in 1947. Said the court: such an exemption could have "a vicious effect upon nonexempt competitors." Said the Mueller Co.: it would appeal to a higher court...
...South Bend...