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...labor, farm and independent votes-once the keystone of the peculiar New Deal Alliance-had gone Republican. Said one wise old New Deal Congressman last week: "Unless we can reverse this political tide, the Democratic Party faces defeat in 1944. I don't know whether we can dam...
Things began to perk up. Boddy exposed a scandalous misuse of public funds on the projected San Gabriel Dam. He tore into a malodorous municipal bond issue. The reputation of the News for fair dealing grew until in February 1929 it showed its first profit...
...51st Highlanders streaked across the moonlit, wreck-strewn desert. What was left of Rommel's artillery tried to hold them back. The British infantry swept on. Dazed and shell-shocked Germans surrendered, turned and ran, or died in the sand beside their 88-mm. guns. Rommel's dam had burst...
Nourished by longer but better guarded lines, the Eighth Army had grown apace. From Britain had come the cannon and munitions that had softened the dam. From the U.S. had come M-4 (General Sherman) * tanks mounting high-velocity, 77-mm. cannon that outranged the lower velocity German 755 by more than 700 yards. At 1,000 yards they tore holes in the frontal German armor, at 2,000 yards pierced side armor. A Seaforth Highlander reported that Italian shells bounced off his General Sherman "like tennis balls...
Kaiser and Howard will make a fabulous team. Kaiser and his men, who helped put up Grand Coulee Dam (largest in the world), Boulder and Bonneville dams, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (longest in the world), are natural-born nose thumbers at nature...