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...months of 1943 the number of ships sunk per U-boat operating was only half that in the last six months of 1942 and only a quarter that in the first half of 1942. . . . During 1943 new ships completed by the Allies exceed all sinkings from all causes by upward of 3,000,000 tons...
...planes had just dive-bombed the jutting rock of Troina where it stuck up like an island amid the circling mountain peaks. Black smoke curled upward in columns, merging into one big black cloud beneath which Troina disappeared like Camelot fading into the mists. We drove our jeep around a cliff to where an ambulance had halted beneath a ledge. Beyond that no car could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first...
...fantastic" expenditure of $97 billion for war in the 1943-44 fiscal year still stands. The Army budget is to be revised downward by $6 billion; the Navy pro gram revised upward by $4 billion. The remaining $2 billion will be absorbed by merchant shipping and other war goods...
...here quickly. Go over there to the left, contact H and F company and look out for the left flank." The sergeant went over the brow of the hill. Only four or five soldiers were close behind him. Somewhere below, the rest of the column was struggling upward with painful slowness...
...last time the farmland value line took a perpendicular upward direction it finally went through the roof. Many a farmer is still in hock because he forgot then that what goes up, etc. On the awful 1921-35 toboggan the average value of a U.S. farm nosedived from $10,284 to $4,825; some 85,000 farmers hit bottom and went through the wringer in the '30s. But this time there are indications that the U.S. farmer does not yet need to be reminded of those doleful years. Most hopeful contrasts between now & then...