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...Longest Day. On June 6, 1944, vast fleets of Allied bombers blasted the north coast of France; the mightiest armada the world had ever seen, 5,000 transport vessels and fighting ships, churned up to the coast of Normandy; 150,000 Allied soldiers smashed ashore at five points under withering fire from the Wehrmacht; 10,000 Allied fighting men and perhaps half that many Germans were killed or wounded; and the outcome of the greatest war in history was unalterably determined...
...corporation back in the black, Zanuck boldly decided to go for broke. In 1960 he shelled out $175,000 for the screen rights to The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan's bestselling history (800,000 copies) of Operation Overlord. In the course of the next year he bought up five scriptwriters, five directors, 37 military advisers and 42-no, it's not a misprint-42 stars.* Then, to the horror of economy-minded Congressmen, Zanuck somehow managed, in effect, to rent several thousand U.S. servicemen and 22 ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet-all for next to nothing...
...Kohler, head of Kohler Co., one of the nation's biggest manufacturers of plumbing fixtures, are two stubborn men. In April 1954, Reuther's U.A.W. walked out of the Kohler plant in Sheboygan, Wis. Last week, after fighting it out for 8½ years in the longest and one of the most bitter strikes in U.S. history, the two antagonists finally reached a settlement...
Hungry for an election that he is confident would make him Prime Minister. Liberal Leader Lester Pearson led off with the longest speech of his parliamentary career (three hours and five minutes) and closed it with the shortest (18 words) no-confidence motion in Parliament's history. He accused the Conservatives of "a major political fraud" in hiding last June's critical run on Canada's foreign-exchange reserves until the election was safely over, indicted the government's tight-money austerity program as the wrong cure for the country's economic ailments. Diefenbaker retorted...
...Chicago & North Western Railway. For farmers and factories along the C. & N. W.'s 10,702mile, nine-state route, the settlement came none too soon. Since 1,000 telegraphers walked out to protest the elimination of small stations-and the obsolescent jobs in them-by the fourth longest U.S. railroad, the Midwest has lost millions in unshipped crops and unfilled orders...