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...victory in the battle for the railroads. When the Red Army captured Zhitomir, it severed the Wehrmacht's last north-to-south railway in pre-1939 Russia, compelled the Germans to use the single-track line 100 miles to the west, in pre-1939 Poland. This defeat virtually split apart Germany's southern and central armies, will hamper the shifting of reserves from sector to sector to meet Russian attacks. Main attacks...
...first day the Nazis tortured Communist Peter Slavek they began by spitting in his face. In a bleak, spacious basement room, where the dim light oozed through frosted glass windows and the bored torturers whiled away their leisure hours playing cards and reading newspapers, they next broke his nose, split his lips and knocked out two teeth...
Despite the earlier endorsement, Harry Bridges and C.I.O. fought Lapham. He was no Labor candidate to them. But Labor split its vote three ways, and like Angelo Rossi went down to defeat...
...revolving like a diver in a triple somersault, shooting by us so close that I saw a piece of paper blow out of his leather jacket. He was evidently making a delayed jump. . . . A B-17 turned gradually out of the formation to the right, maintaining altitude. In a split second it completely vanished in a brilliant explosion, from which the only remains were four balls of fire, the fuel tanks, which were quickly consumed as they fell earthward...
Pershing was the eldest of nine and he split rails like his hero Abe Lincoln. He also taught school and studied law until he heard about West Point. Simply because he had the chance to get a free education, he took up the career for which he was born. John J. Pershing became a soldier...