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...protect the Americans' Cotentin operation, the Allies had to guard against interference by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's mobile reserves. To this task Ike Eisenhower assigned a British-Canadian army which drove swiftly inland to Bayeux and Caen, and cut the Germans' main supply road and railway from the east...
Women & Children Last. From now until the military situation eases, civilians must resign themselves to being unwanted guests on Britain's highly developed, overburdened railway system. From day to day no one can be sure which trains are running; the only information available will be chalked up on station boards...
Concentrated Hell. Bloody was the struggle for Cisterna, where General von Mackensen, commanding the German Fourteenth Army, had turned the railway embankment into a fortification. There some U.S. Rangers, members of two battalions wiped out in the frustrated attack of Jan. 30, were still rotting on the ground...
Their major offensive against India's Manipur state had been dangerous, and it had failed. They had been unable to capture the supply depots of Imphal and Kohima, they had been unable to cut the Bengal-Assam railway. Their offensive had fallen back before strong British counterattacks, would probably be washed out completely by the coming rains...
...C.I.O. Steelworkers have already plumped for Franklin Roosevelt in the past fortnight. How many votes can P.A.C. swing? Its most enthusiastic supporters set a maximum of 13 million-including, besides 5.2 million C.I.Osters, 5 million in the A. F. of L. and 1.3 million in the Railway Brotherhoods. Nationally, the A. F. of L. is firmly opposed to P.A.C. holding to its traditional aloofness from endorsing Presidential candidates. But in many cities and states-notably Iowa, Southern California, Colorado, Washington Washington-local A. F. of L. leaders work closely with the C.I.O...