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...Orel cracked and crumbled, there was a thunderous echo from the south. From a series of intermittent clashes, an other huge Soviet force emerged in a swift and surprise smash at Belgorod. Within a single day that key to the lush grainfields of the Ukraine and the rich industrial Donets basin fell, too, and the Red Army crushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Death to the Invaders | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...with all the pent up sneer you can muster. (This last direction is straight from Frend.) Then, with rapidly successive strokes, pluck each shiny tube from its smug receptacle, clutch gleefully in both hands, and with a heinous whoop," or whatever other sound may best express your innermost emotions, smash one at a time against the book-piled desk at which you've sat so many hot nights. After this act of delicious reprisal, grab the nearest blunt weapon, and bludgeon to permanent silence the obstinate object of your electronic muddle...

Author: By Yeoman RICHARD Brill, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 8/10/1943 | See Source »

...secret is General Arnold's dislike of Pan Am's peacetime monopoly. When ATC was set up, he gave domestic U.S. airlines (with little international experience) the lion's share. Thus General Arnold has already built up the weapon to smash Pan Am's grip on world routes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: 16 v. Pan Am | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...power flicked over the elected zones. Then the destroyers stood in from the sea and began a graceful, weaving parade offshore, their guns shooting tongues of flame at enemy pillboxes and strong points on land. Farther out battleships lobbed their heavy shells in high-arc interdictory fire to smash highways and crossroads deeper in the invasion area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF SICILY: Overseas Operations | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Married. Agnes George de Mille, 34, smart choreographer; and U.S. Army Air Forces Lieut. Walter Prude, 33; each for the first time; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Daughter of Hollywoodsman William de Mille (Cecil's brother), she devised the dances for Broadway's current musical smash, Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 28, 1943 | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

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