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...foot of World War I has reappeared in the present comparatively trenchless war. In World War I, soldiers got trench foot from sitting for hours with their feet in mud or cold water. The result was something like severe chilblains, something like a burn: circulation slowed; feet became numb, swollen and white; sudden warming sometimes brought blisters and ulcers. The worst cases got gangrene, which meant amputation. Today's trench foot has different sources...
...pointed out the inconsistencies in the flyer's arguments about labor rights, wages and hours, absentecism, and slowdowns in production; and concluded by refuting Rickenbacker's accusations against the "swollen treasuries" of the labor unions...
Fear, exhaustion and thirst sickened him. His ankles were swollen to twice normal size, his legs suffered cramps. "I shamelessly got down on my belly and wiggled my way under a lorry, not caring that I was lying in a mess of dirt and oil and blood. A wounded and emaciated Indian soldier, more exhausted than I, crawled under beside me and with the eyes of a stricken animal gazed at me, crying softly: Tani, pani.' But of course I had not a drop of water to offer him." The troops attacked for three whole days until they broke...
National Socialism was Depression's angry child. Say Authors Weyl and Jansen: "In the elections of May 1928 the National Socialists polled a total of only 809,000 votes in all Germany. By September 1930 the brown flood had swollen to 6,500,000 votes. . . . At the end of July 1932, with more than 13,500,000 votes and 230 [Reichstag] deputies, the Nazis reached the peak of their legal power in the Weimar State...
...bearded hills were heavy with wet and the rain and sleet gathered great churning white heads and came roaring down. Swollen rivers rose first in the Pittsburgh industrial regions, then in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama...