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...divisions had been flowing faster into Korea, General Walker would by now have some reserves. He would not be forced to shuttle troops from one crisis to another, or to pull war-weary troops into action before they had been rested. It was clearly not enough to kill more & more North Koreans, for the attrition of battle was working both ways...
...enemy got to within four miles of Kyongju. The Reds seized nearly the whole of the Yongchon-Pohang road and brought the Yongchon-Kyongju road under interdiction fire. Since General Walker had no reserves and could spare no front-line troops from any other sector, he was forced to pull the 24th Division (first U.S. division committed in Korea) from a rest area and send it back to battle in the northeast. The 24th's commander, Major General John Church, looked very sick of the war when he conferred with the Marines' Brigadier General Edward Craig...
Like many another editor who long leaned heavily on fiction, Wiese knows that fiction no longer has the old pull; readers want more & more lively nonfiction, topical articles, picture spreads and stories. So he gave Mich the job of supplying them. An old newshand, Dan Mich should have no trouble filling the bill. He quit the University of Wisconsin in 1923 in his sophomore year to become sport editor of Madison's Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 76,206), was managing editor at 28. In 1937, Gardner ("Mike") Cowles lured him to Des Moines to help run his fledgling Look...
...tiny electric ovens-and endless time for minor irritations of dreadnought flying to sap the toughest crewman. The crew's sections are pressurized like bug-bombs. To get from the nose compartment to the rear chamber a crewman has to lie full length on a little roller sled, pull himself hand over hand down an 85-ft. connecting tube...
President Ferry thinks that the $20 million which Packard has staked on the new team will pull the company out of its troubles. He hopes to roll out 13,000 cars a month-twice the production rate of the first six months this year-and sell 100,000 new cars by next July...