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...ordered 83 billion cigarets for 1944. This left 250 billion for the nation's 50-odd million civilian cigaret-smokers-an average of 14 a day. The average for the Army's eight million smokers was 23 a day, or eight packs a week. But a steady stream of news stories bore out the fact that soldiers at the front were getting nowhere near as many as that. The question arose: were there huge unused Army & Navy stocks stored away in seaboard warehouses...
...brown water in one place spread almost a mile across the plain. Lieut. General William ("Texas Bill") Simpson's Ninth Army inched painfully forward until it held a 20-mile stretch on the west bank. On his right, Courtney Hodges' First Army had to cross a smaller stream, the Inde, before it could come up to the Roer. The Germans fought like wild men for the Inde also. Driven out of the town of Inden, they lanced back in with armor and crack infantry, blew up a bridge. Ousted again, they put down an artillery barrage in which...
...developed a "molecular beam" consisting of a stream of molecules shot through a very fine slit into a vacuum tube. In the empty tube, each molecule traveled in a straight line. When it was subjected to a magnetic field, a molecule's magnetic "moment" or force could be gauged by the extent of its deflection from a straight course...
...legend of his inaccessibility . . . developed." Out of working hours his household found him full of "gay nonsense" and friendliness. lie enjoyed whittling, because, he said: "Waittiers are thinkers . . . and from groups of whittlers come the trickles of sentiment and conviction which merge at last to form the broad stream of public opinion." In the evening he liked to read poetry aloud to the assembled family, or sing snatches of Gilbert & Sullivan and Scottish ballads. He loved to play the "heavy villain" in family melodramas, "dragging one foot behind him, scowling over his shoulder," and barking his favorite ejaculation...
When you're in the middle of the stream AND the horse starts riding YOU-it's time to change horses...