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However the bombings helped shipping to Africa, it was too late to help one big chunk of Rommel's Army. Last week, 5,500 Axis troops in the narrow canyon of Halfâya Pass, isolated in a bomb-torn pocket on the eastern edge of the desert battlefield, gave up. Dusty, thirsty, hungry and 2,200 miles from their main body, they ran up the white flag, surrendered unconditionally to Major General Pierre de Viller's South African and Free French forces...
...started in 1898 by Edward Kearney and Theodore Trecker, two smart machinists who were tired of sweating for other people. Their first job: repairing a baby carriage. Later they specialized on that most versatile of machine tools, the milling machine. The milling machine, holding a chunk of metal in a movable bed, works on three sides of it at once with as many as eight multi-toothed rotating cutters. First big break for K. & T. was the auto industry's need for highly finished flat or grooved surfaces-the kind of work millers do best...
...Busy Board" gains the lion's share of the profits of the Crime. Business and Advertising Managers, the executive posts of the Senior year, make up to $1,000 during their year in office, and the Freshman and Sophomore editors divide a sizeable chunk among themselves...
...time on 30 days' written notice, it also meant little from the longterm, post-war economic viewpoint. Two days after the signing, Argentina agreed to sell her entire exportable beef surplus (500,000 tons) to Great Britain. Added to other heavy British purchases, that meant another sizable chunk of sterling credits frozen in London. When these are thawed by peace, Argentina undoubtedly will do her shopping in Europe. Supporting reasons: lower costs, better terms, partial European control of normal Argentine trade...
...about $2,000,000,000 - 22% of all U.S. retail food sales. This is the estimate presented last week by the U.S. Census Bureau's John Guernsey to a Philadelphia convention of the Super Market Institute (owners of more than 1,000 markets). How much larger a chunk of the nation's food bill super markets might eventually get, no one could guess. The U.S. had 9,250 super markets at year's beginning, has 10,100 now, is getting more all the time...