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...sudden thaw created a sea of mud. Standing ankle-deep in the ooze, perky little Montgomery said to correspondents: "The battle is going very well. But of course all this mud doesn't help, does...
Faced by this sudden threat to its rear, the Seventh withdrew from its two footholds in Germany. Then the Germans began shelling Haguenau, a main communications center in northern Alsace. On the west bank of the upper Rhine, they attacked the French around the Colmar pocket. And they threw tanks across the Rhine, north and south of Strasbourg...
...easygoing Marvin Jones cheerily experimented with taking some meats off the ration lists.* Sharing Washington's war optimism, through OPA he also ordered wholesalers and retailers to reduce sharply their stores of canned goods, to get ready for quick handling of surpluses in case the European war ended suddenly. Result: with so many foods moving point-free, OPA found it harder to distribute supplies evenly and feared that a sudden spending of stored-up points would strip all grocery shelves of food...
Trench foot is a sort of mild frostbite that results from letting feet stay cold and damp for a long time. Shelter foot and immersion foot (TIME, May 10, 1943) are essentially the same thing. Circulation slows or stops, feet turn white and numb, sudden warming causes painful burning. The devitalized tissues may recover if kept cool and dry for a few days or weeks. But in some cases blisters develop and become infected, even cause gangrene, amputation or death. Many victims who emerge with feet intact can never fight again because their feet ache on long hikes...
Cats in general have no reason to like Dr. Masserman: he has been engaged for some time in making them neurotic and then trying to cure them (TIME, June 8, 1942). In his latest experiment, using his standard method of confusing and frightening the animals by sudden blasts of air in their cages, he got a group of 16 cats into such a state of nerves that some of them even recoiled from a caged mouse. Then he gave them alcohol by injection or stomach tube. It quickly cured their jitters. They went back into their cages and, despite their...