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...taken out of a game. There are two moments of greatness: the slow, tentative wading ashore of the relief troops on the fourth day (no camera recorded the slaughter of 300 to 400 on the second); the faces of the marines as they watch the flag rise to the peak of the pole they have...
Fewer Shoes. Last year's total shoe production was down 5% from 1942, in turn down 3% from the 1941 peak; 461,573,000 pairs were produced (9% above 1939, the prewar high). This looked like a lot, but 47 million went to the military, and another 100,000,000 or so were heavy workshoes or fabric and composition numbers ranging from canvas beach & tennis shoes to strictly fireside slippers...
...Talisman. Five days before Sir Archibald Sinclair, Britain's dapper Secretary of State for Air, told the House of Commons that Allied air power was now nearly at peak strength, and declared that air supremacy, "the talisman that can paralyze German war industry and war transport and clear the road to Berlin," is clearly within reach...
...Among U.S. males of 18, who should be at the peak of good health, one out of four up for induction is unfit for combat...
...Down? All this was solid evidence to many a Wall Streeter that profits, despite the still rising curve of U.S. production, are at or near their alltime peak. From now on, they may have no place to go but down...