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...miles wide, the plain rises imperceptibly from the west to east until it reaches about 240 ft. above sea level, then falls away sharply in a few miles to the Volga, which at Stalingrad is 40 ft. below sea level.* The few ravines dividing the plain are knee-deep brooks. There are no forests such as help to screen Moscow. The Nazis had merely to cross the plain between two rivers. Sprawling along the Volga for 25-miles, Stalingrad's shoestring outline provides not even a compact area to defend. A break-through at any point could...
Chest Out. Preflight's track is not the track of the Olympic Games but a specialty called military track. Its main event, the 60-yd. obstacle run, is the most grueling thing in the preflight program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time...
...Mammy Grayson croons a pair of standout melodies (Goin' To Chicago and Only Worry For a Pillow), and the picture's other Negro artists are first-rate- especially a young Negro boy with a trumpet, knee-deep in Bach at a New Orleans music academy. He loathes the formalized Bach exercises, wants to play his kind of music. After a few bars he does, riding away, loud and low, right out of the academy...
Next nightfall the division was south of the Strait. The old destroyers boiled up to 27 knots and the bones in their teeth broke and swept across the flush decks knee-deep in spray and foam...
Before his words had cooled, the Premier found himself knee-deep in another quarrel. To the head of Canadian Broadcasting Co. in Ottawa he sent a hot telegram insisting that the Government chain had deliberately misquoted him in saying he was going to talk about "America's lack of preparation." CBC acknowledged that it had erred in giving the date of his broadcast (though the network carried it), ducked responsibility for the rest of the item...