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GEORGE W. PEAK...
...peak strength the Axis troops in Tunisia never numbered more than 250,000, were perhaps nearer 150,000. About 50,000 had been killed or captured since the Mareth battle. There were probably something more than 100,000 left when the final assault began last week...
During its harried 18-month career the Army Air Forces glider program has found the winds of public and official esteem as tricky as the thermal air currents over a mountain peak. Like many another new weapon, the glider was first overlooked, then overdramatized, later overdisparaged...
...average useful life of such tools (overlooking obsolescence) is from 15 to 20 years. Last year the industry shipped a fabulous $1.3 billion of tools, seven times its 1929 high, ten times its 1919-35 average. This year shipments are off more than 10% from last December's peak; new orders are coming in only half as fast as they did last summer. And the men who really brood point out that much of this new tool production is Government-owned, may be sold for next to nothing after...
...citizens, uniformed and in mufti, traveled 54 billion passenger miles last year-an alltime high-though U.S. railroads had only two-thirds of the cars, half the locomotives they had 20 years ago. Where 100 passengers used to be considered the peak for one diner, now a single crew of waiters may have to serve up to 700 meals a day, sometimes work from 5:30 a.m. until 2 a.m. next morning. Pullman porters, working over 250 hours a month, are similarly overloaded...