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...weapon of terrible power. It was never something to be shrugged off with British humor and contempt for the bloody Nazis. It was a weapon which struck again & again & again, 18 hours at a stretch. Even its sound-effects were potent: a throaty roar, then a sudden silence when the jet motor stopped and the bomb dived; then the blast. It kept thousands of Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained apprehension which the Great Blitz never matched. As inaccurate as it was impersonal...
...reasons for this sudden flowering are two : 1 ) retailers, cramped by wartime shortages, are stocking practically any thing; 2) small record companies, formerly devoted to such specialties as race songs or Elizabethan madrigals, have taken advantage of the Petrillo feud with Victor and Columbia (TIME, Dec. 6, 1943, et ante} to enter the popular field...
...Germans were heavily fortified in depth, but the sudden release of pent-up Soviet power was overwhelming. German Commentator Ernest von Hammer described "masses of tanks and fighter-bombers on a scale never seen before during the entire Russian campaign." Red sappers advancing toward the Pronya River behind a wall of artillery fire found pulverized German bodies in shredded uniforms, said that they "looked as if they had suffered death several times...
...which the B-29 has two). Even a larger shell hit could be patched before all the cabin pressure was lost. But there was still the danger of a large gaping rent such as a direct ack-ack hit might cause: how would men be affected by the sudden change of pressure...
...break in the drought was caused by a sudden improvement in the industrial-alcohol supply. For months, WPB has gloomily predicted that the U.S. would fail by some 20,000,000 gallons to meet this year's requirements. The reason: the synthetic-rubber program was swallowing far more alcohol than estimated, mainly because the petroleum process plants were getting into production so slowly (TIME, Feb. 14). But a fortnight ago Rubber Boss Bradley Dewey lopped 20,000,000 gallons off his estimated needs. Barring unexpected war demands, further improvement in the production of rubber-from-petroleum may mean another...