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...Berliner wears his old clothes, as the Parisian did. He pays two dollars for a cigaret, whereas the Parisian paid two dollars a pack. But the Parisian had no electricity during daylight all last winter. The Berliner has electricity during the day now. The underground is operating throughout most of Berlin, five bus lines are running and a good many streetcar lines. In Paris there are still no street cars or busses. In short, the living standard in Berlin is about as good as it is in most of Europe's cities...
...miles. A heavier (110-lb.) kickless gun also in service is the 75 mm., which is fired from a tripod no heavier than a machine-gun mount and has a range of more than four miles. The Army's most mobile artillery weapon was formerly the 75-mm. pack howitzer, weighing about...
...reached for another cigaret, then jabbed the pack into his pocket. I let him talk: "He just got a letter from his wife. Just came in with this mail. He came up to me and I knew (here was something wrong before he spoke. Matter of fact he didn't say much. Sometimes they talk. But he just couldn't. He just handed me the letter and said: 'This is the first I've had from my wife in six months...
From the weird, camouflaged concrete of a Jap-built field the troop carriers took off. With them went Colonel Felix ("Snatch") Dupont's supply gliders (being used for the first time in the Philippines), loaded with pack howitzers, jeeps, radios and supplies. Over the flatlands at Luzon's tip the parachutists blossomed from their transports. Gliders slid into the high grass unopposed. Said wit nesses : like maneuvers on the village green...
...with him the strongest possible evidence of U.S. leadership in a world organization. He would fly out ftiis week for the charter's completion at San Francisco and will fly back with the bacon at once. He would like Senate ratification in a hurry, so that be could pack a TT.S.approved world charter into his overseas luggage...