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...enemy thrusts ran into British tanks, firing over hilltops, and high-velocity antitank guns, blasting from the hedgerows or forest edges. Heavier attacks were driven off by British artillery, which dumped shells like loads of coal onto the advancing Panzer formations. The Nazis could not crack the British positions. The enemy might delay Caen's fall; he could not prevent...
...Treasury's problem. All last year he pleaded with Congress to pass at least a $10,500,000,000 tax bill. President Roosevelt urged the same thing; and Wendell Willkie topped them both with a demand for a $16,000,000,000 tax bill. In arguing for heavier taxes, they were all on the side of the angels, in that they were trying to sop up inflationary spending. But Mr. Morgenthau torpedoed his own argument by garbling the fiscal facts. In arguing that the U.S. must pay for 50% of the war out of current taxes, he plainly implied...
...Pledge. It was no easy promise to keep. German strength in the area turned out to be even heavier than expected. The airborne troops dropped in at 1 a.m. and grabbed the vital bridges, but then they had to dig in and stand off one violent counterattack after another...
...language: "Engländer und Amerikaner good, aber Partisanen kaputt"-indicating that only the Yugoslavs would be executed. At about 9 a.m. we were marched off to a cemetery where the Germans had established their headquarters. The whole town was in German hands by now, but the firing was heavier at the foot of the hills around the town. We stood for a while, watching the bandaging of the first German wounded. Suddenly I saw a Chetnik standing in a group of German officers. He was a young man in a peasant costume, a rifle slung across his shoulder...
...coming off the production line is the company's XR-4. By fall this will be replaced by a later, heavier-load-carrying model, the XR5 Powered by a 450-h.p. Pratt & Whitney motor, the XR5 carries a pilot and passenger in tandem, flies faster than 110 miles an hour, has a range of some 400 miles...