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Berliners who had sets in working order heard from somewhere in Germany a thoroughly Teutonic curtain speech addressed just to them: "Vapors and smoke trail upward.... Underneath is a sea of flame, a volcano of millions of fires and twitching shadows. Berlin, help us once more to conjure up all that you have meant!" When Berlin returned to the air, it talked Russian...
...French frontier Lieut. General Joseph Pierre Koenig, hero of Bir Hacheim, Commander of the F.F.I, and Military Governor of Paris, waited in stony silence to put the old man under arrest. A Swiss Guard of Honor presented arms. But French troops presented reversed arms (rifle butts upward), a gesture of dishonor. The old Marshal doffed his hat, offered to shake hands with General Koenig. The General stiffly declined. Quietly, in the twilight, Henri Petain boarded a special train for Paris...
...plant had been shut down, he said, since the heavy Allied air raid of March 11. At that time upward of 50,000 workers, including 10,000 foreign slaves, were on the Krupp production line...
...Down. Some of the Jap flyers managed to get down to their targets; three U.S. destroyers were hit and sunk. But the Japs had sent upward of 500 planes into action; of these, 245 were intercepted and destroyed on their way to Okinawa, and 116 were shot down at Okinawa...
...comparison with Freshmen admitted in July 1943, the average age of Freshmen admitted in the name month of 1944 has risen from 17 years, four months to 17 years, five months. There has also been an upward trend in the number of men admitted from private schools as compared to public schools...