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...fundamental tenets of the Soviet Army is the doctrine of unified warfare (Edinaia Voienna ia Doktrina): a principle according to which all warfare must be transformed into action in the rear by all the means, tactical and strategic, at the disposition of the Red Army. Three-dimensional warfare offers new scope for this principle. Large armies can be landed by air in the farthest reaches of the enemy's rear lines; such forces, in addition to destroying vital industrial centers and occupying strategic points, would also constitute a kernel for civil...
...Peru's rainless, guano (dung)covered Chincha Islands, Director Carlos Llosa Belaunde of the semi-official Compañia Administradora del Guano fondly examined a guano sample. His 20 million birds were performing magnificently, producing more & more fertilizer for Peru's irrigated fields. Recently Señor Llosa announced that this year the national guano harvest would be 170,000 tons, up from the 1942 low of 79,000 tons. Chief reasons: a scientific pampering of the guano birds, and the fact that the Peruvian (Humboldt) Current, which sometimes falters, was flowing strong and cold from the Antarctic...
...bill's tax-reduction formula-10.5% for the highest brackets, 20% for the middle, 30% for the lowest brackets -"fails to give relief where it ia needed most"-in the lowest brackets...
Fred Sheppard, 76, of Baltimore, father of 25 children, went to the House of Correction for operating as a fence for a smallfry gang of 11- and 12-year-olds. Farmer Charles Mleynek, of Earlham, Ia, was found dead in his living room, shot by someone who knocked one afternoon at his kitchen door...
From Gulf to Gulf. This year three huge irrigation plants and half a dozen smaller projects have been completed. The "Lázaro Cárdenas," fourth largest earthen dam in the world, held back the waters of the Nazas River ia September 1944, during the worst flood in 53 years, protected the cities of Torreón, Lerdo and Gómes Palacio in the plains of northern Mexico. This more than compensated for the $16 million the dam has cost to date. On the 280,000 acres it irrigates live 35,000 peasant families...