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LONDON-German shock troops are battling within 10 to 15 miles of Rostov and 38 to 40 miles of Moscow in the two most critical sectors of the Russian front and have opened a new offensive around Orcl, 220 miles south of Moscow, Soviet reports said today...
...FROM . . . HARNESS AND STREAMED OUT THE EXTENT OF SHROUD LINE; SILK OF THE CHUTE REMAINED INTACT. I PULLED IN THIS CHUTE SEVERAL TIMES WITH THE INTENT OF USING IT; HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF BEING SUSPENDED ONLY BY ONE KNEE, I DID NOT OPEN IT. WITH AN ATTEMPTED USE THE OPENING SHOCK WOULD HAVE CATAPULTED ME OUT OF THE HARNESS. HAD TO KEEP MY KNEES LOCKED IN ORDER TO HANG ON. AIR PRESSURE TERRIFIC. KEPT SPINNING ALL THE TIME. TO BE ABLE TO CUT LOOSE AS SUGGESTED NEEDED SEVERAL MORE ARMS. ON THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE NEITHER BAD NOR TERRIFYING, CONSCIOUS...
...half-accomplishments of U.S. life with the mood of the people about the war. No publicist was powerful enough to relate the infinite, anonymous mass of individual difficulties with the upheavals of the times. A year ago last June, on the beach at Dunkirk, the democracies had a shock which gave men everywhere their first real sense of the seriousness of the war. That feeling did not endure. Last week, with Russia battered to a bloody pulp, with Japan on the brink of another war, with the U.S. facing the decision of fighting in both oceans, the democracies were close...
...town of Jellico, Tenn., on the Kentucky border (where Songstress Grace Moore once sang in a church choir), miners were fighting for subsistence wages. Operators, who included subsidiaries of U.S. Steel Corp., Ford, International Harvester, fought to keep wages down, keep Turnblazer's union from trespassing. The shock troops of the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association were "special guards," sheriffs and deputies...
...illusion faded when the U.S.S. Kearny (rhymes with Blarney), a crack destroyer scarcely a year in service, was torpedoed. But the illusion did not disappear until the nation felt the dull visceral shock of reading its first casualty list of World War II, reading of its own men "The next of kin have been notified...