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...lines, the "cannibalizing" of tanks and guns (piecing together new units from dismantled wrecks) has been put on an assembly-line basis. But even miracles have their limits: there came a point where the supply miracle had been stretched to the snapping point. Organization and improvisation had done their utmost. The Allied armies slowed down, stopped...
...still exults in his wickedness and proposes to repeat it when the occasion offers, would mean that we identified ourselves with his crimes. So far from Germany there has come no voice of penitence. There must be repentance before there is forgiveness, though the Christian must do his utmost to encourage and to welcome...
...house of L. D. Owens in Sausalito, Calif, (see cut), designed by San Francisco's Gardner A. Dailey, is a fine example of the flourishing California school of modernists. A modest wooden structure, it is planned "like a wide-angle camera" to take utmost advantage of the frequently befogged Sausalito daylight, has clear glass over half its front and rear elevations...
Torn Fabric. Rumors aside, the admitted facts added up to an Army crisis of the utmost gravity. If even a small percentage of officers had been affected, then German fighting power was far more seriously weakened than if all those officers had been lost in a single day of combat in the field. Germany's is a close-textured Army; a few threads plucked from it could destroy the fabric, especially when it is stretched taut over three fronts...
...Ribbentrop argued that Germany's military reserves are sufficient for another year of slow retreat. During this time, satellite troops would be used to the utmost. Heavy losses would be inflicted, particularly on Americans, whose people would not tolerate them in battles far from home. While the Allied will to fight was being sapped, German political warfare would drive a wedge between the Anglo-Saxons and the Russians. Then two paths would open a negotiated peace with either the Eastern or the Western Powers. Contacts were already being made in Stockholm and Madrid...