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...best Allied hope was to contain the offensive, bring up massive reinforcements capable of destroying the German forces. In General Eisenhower's favor was the fact the enemy was now out in the open-not in the fortifications, river lines and prepared defenses of the Westwall. From the tone of his proclamation to his troops, Eisenhower seemed to think the job could be done...
Most citizens were less interested in the violation than in the timing of the WPB blast. The violation occurred during April, May and June. But WPB managed to contain its wrath until Nov. 10-three days after the election...
...these letters are chosen. I guess the best answer was written 20 years ago to introduce TIME'S first Letters column (Dec. 29, 1924): "Herewith excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain, either supplementary to, or corrective of news published previously in TIME...
...East Ohio Gas Co. began constructing three big spherical tanks, and a smaller cylindrical one, at their sprawling plant in Cleveland's east side. Each was a giant thermos bottle, cunningly built to contain a strange substance-natural gas reduced to liquid under intense cold. One tank leaked slightly, but it was repaired. After that the tanks performed a miracle of storage. The liquid they held, when vaporized would become 240,000,000 cubic feet of inflammable gas. One afternoon last week, a white, cloudlike stream squirted from one of them. A thick fog drifted up. Then the whole...
...first document produced by Wilck was unsatisfactory to the Americans: it did not contain the word "unconditional." After some hesitation, which he said was due to fear of Nazi retaliation against his family, Gerhardt Wilck drafted another: "Aachen's defending German garrison ran out of food and ammunition. I am forced to give up my command and surrender Aachen unconditionally, with all its stores, to the commanding officer of the victorious Americans...