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...over the hills beyond the Havel, and the people in their cellars could hear the motors' hum. The guns were speaking now in chorus, their individual bangs and roars mixed in a hell of sound that thrummed the tight air in the shelters. Talk stopped; faces craned upward anxiously, waiting for the big bombs to fall...
...overall production curve had not shown signs of ripping upward toward the 10,000-plus a month needed for this year to meet the President's 1943 goal of 125,000 combat aircraft. In 1942 the goal had been 60,000. Actually 48,000 were produced. That was still a lot of aircraft for a production machine starting almost from scratch...
...Upward, Onward & Around...
Soft Spot? The Allies had a preponderance of men in North Africa but they were not all in Tunisia; many of the U.S. troops in action were green, most of the French ill equipped. Against them were upward of 150,000 hardened, battlewise troops, including the remnants of Erwin Rommel's tough if battered army, and at least one crack Panzer division-the Tenth, which had fought in Poland, France, Russia. German equipment was excellent. On to the battlefields last week rumbled the new, mighty Mark VI tank, heavily armored and hard to stop. Hitler had poured an estimated...
Jazz, the real jazz, is the acknowledged American muric, but those who have tried to force it into classical forms have been blatantly unsuccessful. The only composers to get anywhere expanding jazz for the concert stage have worked upward from it, not downward to it from classical music...