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...With the impending collapse of Germany and her destruction as a dam against Communism, Spain and Portugal, a thousand miles to the west, become the next barriers to the onrushing Red Russian tidal flood...
...guns began to hammer with deadly precision at the U.S. positions on the Belgium-Luxembourg front. His attack was swift and sure. Spearheaded by the 1st SS Panzer-the Adolf Hitler Division-his point rammed two U.S. divisions on the northern flank, overran a third like a tidal wave...
...Germans no longer had much semblance of a line on the Eastern Front, except on maps. They had only bloody, bewildered fragments of armies, of divisions, tossed about and swallowed like debris in a tidal wave. On some sectors, on some days, the Red spearheads covered 30 miles, a creditable pace for a peacetime army on maneuvers. It meant that there were no Germans in their path at those points, or not enough to matter...
...once, Wall Streeters unanimously agreed on the reason for the boom. D-day had touched off a buying ripple, which, had turned into a tidal wave under the fair, strong wind of cheering war news. The Street seemed confident that the end of the war was in sight. The brisk buying of "peace" stocks, notably those of I.T. & T., Packard, and all the war-busy auto companies, turned into a scramble. Most riproaring of all was Willys-Overland, which got a new boss fortnight ago, ex-Fordman Charles E. Sorensen (TIME, June 19). Day after day Willys charged ahead, helped...
...years had Vesuvius erupted so violently. In Bari, 130 miles across the Italian boot, daylight darkened with dust, householders turned on lights, chickens went to roost. In the Bay of Naples, shipmasters worried lest quake and tidal wave follow the eruption. Along the road to Salerno, peasants wore metal pots on their heads to ward off falling cinders; ashes 18 inches deep blocked traffic, caved in roofs. But nowhere was the earth's inner wrath more terrible than high on the mountain's scarred slope...