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...They imprisoned me ten times," he reminisces. His last and longest imprisonment, from 1938 to 1941, began under the Metaxas dictatorship, ended under the Nazis. He escaped from the Germans in 1941, helped to organize the resistance group EAM and their army ELAS. He became kapitanos of the "Macedonian Group of Divisions"; in October 1944, as the Germans withdrew from Salonika, Markos entered the city as liberator without firing a shot. He, not the Greek resistance's commanding general, led the parade, wore the hero's laurel wreath, took the public bows. He then set himself...
Optimist: Maybe this is the longest upward movement ever known. Why shouldn't it be? It has also covered by far the largest war in history. Is it really conceivable that all the damage and dislocation caused by the war could be put right in less than three years from...
...bright aluminum paint), almost the whole plant is made of aluminum -three miles of wall paneling, 2,000,000 square feet of roof sheeting, 500,000 square feet of window sash, 1,340 miles of wiring, 98 miles of conduit and 6,800 lighting fixtures, all surrounded by the longest aluminum fence (four miles) ever made. Even the 112 workers' homes outside the fence are built of aluminum...
Even by June, when Evans plans to close Man and Superman on Broadway after the longest run (some 270 performances) a Shaw play ever enjoyed, the royalties will not stop rolling in: Evans will take the play on a 57-city road tour. And this week on Broadway, the Theatre Guild will present Shaw's You Never Can Tell...
Claiming the longest continued career in silviculture of any similar institution in the land, the Forest has grown from a tract of miscellaneous woodlots and abandoned farmland of 1907, the year it came into the University hands, into a "model forest" and experiment station for demonstrating forestry practices. In addition, the woodland serves as the University's school of forestry for a student body of five...