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...great opportunist, like all good soldiers, Rommel was ready to exploit any gain. And he was a gambler. If he were lucky and could crack Thala, he would have access to the Kremamsa Plateau, could pour troops onto that flatland, could drive against the flank of the British First Army which sprawled across the top of Tunisia. Then the whole Allied strategy in North Africa would have to be recast. This was the crisis when the weary young men braced themselves and Allied reinforcements rushed up to give them...
Bases & Battlefields. Air forces, in the prelude to the final struggle, hammered at each other's bases and communication lines. The score in the air: 645 Axis planes downed; 260 Allied. Both sides continued to pour men and materiel into the constricted, crowded battlefield. Axis forces already numbered 250,000 men, according to Mr. Churchill. Allied forces on the front line were undisclosed, although Mr. Churchill said 500,000 had been landed in Northwest Africa...
Then the questions began to pour...
...least of all Mrs. Mullane, who is a ruddy-faced, unassuming Staten Island housewife, had any idea that the request would bring a deluge of 210,000 letters, 315,000 pennies and assorted small change. The pennies started to pour in on Sunday morning after the broadcast. Children pushed them under the door. All day friends dropped in to make contributions...
...Eastern Seaboard. By next June, when the second section of the line is completed-from Norris City to Philadelphia and Bayway, N.J.-Eastern refineries will be able to draw oil from far-off Texas as easily as a housewife gets water from the kitchen faucet. And the spigot will pour forth 300,000 barrels a day (more than one-fifth of the need of the Eastern area...