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...never got through, and to this extent El Guettar was a failure. The fault was not with the 1st Division, which took all its objectives on schedule. It was partly the fault of the 9th, which took ridge after ridge only to leave pockets of the enemy in its rear. The Germans had mortars sunk in gullies which could be captured only by hand-to-hand combat. They had heavy artillery which covered the hills on both sides of the pass and the valley between. And they had observation posts on the highest peaks which could direct their fire anywhere...
Yerex' meat was poison to Pan American Airways, which has had a monopoly on all scheduled air traffic south from Miami. It was not Pan Am's fault that it had not been able to transport all the people and freight accumulated in Miami: it could not get the necessary additional planes...
Goods Cannot Move. Through no fault of its own, China is stagnant. Japan's very nearly total blockade has accomplished a kind of stillness inside China that looks to some Chinese like the stillness of death...
...Army had discovered the usefulness of its women auxiliaries. And every woman jill of them was a volunteer, who had endured the cheap jokes and poor public reactions of the WAAC's early weeks. WAACs were sure that if enrollment had not proceeded according to plan the fault lay with the plan-and with U.S. women and kinsfolk...
...Mirandas claimed that Brewster bad management was not their fault. To them, Brewster's low earnings had no connection with their...