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...parades, 1,550 miles apart, reflected the mortal shift in Nazi fortunes last week...
What could be done, I asked the commander. He said his decision had been made by higher headquarters-he was to shift attacking forces from the railroad into the hills, try to bypass the Jap garrison, close with the enemy positions at some point nearer Hengyang high in the roadless hills. We could go with him or return. We thanked him, said we would go back and write what his men had tried...
...midsummer night, So silent Danes drove up in borrowed trucks before the gates of Copenhagen's Dansk RiÜel Syndikat, leading manufacturers of automatic rifles for German use. The Danes disarmed the guards, cut the phone lines, ran through the plant buildings calling out the night shift. Then they carefully planted 15 bombs, set the fuses, started the factory sirens and sped away. The detonations did Danish hearts good. The damage was "formidable," Free Danes said, and the ensuing fire got wholly out of hand. It was the biggest job of sabotage to date...
...fled the capital for their old jobs. Fortnight ago WPB's Deputy Vice Chairman for Metals Howard Young resumed the presidency of American Zinc Lead and Smelting Co. Assistant WPB Steel Director Joseph L. Block has returned to the executive vice-presidency of Inland Steel Co. Others are shifting uneasily behind their desks as they shuffle the piles of paper from the In-box to the Outbox. More & more U.S. businessmen feel that the U.S. is getting very close to the shift toward large-scale civilian production. And many a corporation had warned its lend-leased talent: come...
...miles from the Red lines lay the border of Norway and beyond, the rich nickel mines that are an essential part of the German war economy. Dietl had better hold fast at Norway's back door. The Finnish troops on the Karelian Isthmus were likely to have to shift for themselves...