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...another captured bridge and blew himself up with it. Through these holes the Germans poured before the mass of the Allied force could reach the prepared outer defenses. Beginning Sunday night, things began to look bad for the Allies, not only in Holland but all down through the Ardennes Forest, where the Germans ripped open with terrific air attacks supporting their Panzer (armored columns...
Blue & Yellow Danube. At Donaue-schingen in the Black Forest three small Alpine streams come together to form Europe's second longest river (the Volga is longer), which flows 1,750 miles across central and southeastern Europe to pour its waters into the Black Sea north of Constantsa. The Danube drains 320,200 square miles, has 300 tributaries; with the Rhine and the canal joining the two (now being improved at a cost of $300,000,000) it forms a waterway across Europe...
...about 6% over 1939. Yet oilmen still had small reason to hope that rising U. S. consumption would knock the hump out of gasoline's inventory curve. Nor were war and winter alone to blame. More important than either in oil's overproduction is an unlovely derrick forest in Southern Illinois...
Recently, the government has been concerned over the frequency of forest fires in certain regions of the country. Believing that many of these fires were started by dissatisfied country people, a sub-committee for the prevention of forest fires was established...
Studies made over a year and a half have provided several temporary remedies. The committee now feels that the solution to the problem lies in the establishment of the European system. In Europe each local community owns its share of the forest, giving every man a vested interest in its preservation...