Experiences with the sixth Armored Division in european theater, including fighting in the battle of the bulge. Mr. Slater served as an aide and shared stories about patton. The National World War Ii Museum conducted this interview in 2009 for its oral history collection. 2009. Is august 5, thomas with the National World War Ii Museum. Today i am with Esther Benjamin schleider. For the record, please state your full name. Olafchleider benjamin schleider. Were reborn . Mr. Schleider texas. When were you born . One of the things i remember is, my grandfather, who was a very successful is businessman, was nra, theppy with the National Coverage at recovery act. He had a lot of choice words to say about that. I also remember, we had some tom operations in addition the business my father was in. To,we had to kill cattle for some reason, it was part of the program. And it was very distressing to my family to have cattle killed. We tried to process as much of the meat as possible. And preserve
The nasdaq up about four points. Yields firmed up a little. You can see the 10year, as equities came up, the 10year about 0. 624 all of this as Energy Prices got stronger the june contract up about 13 now trading at 15. 68. Hard to believe that is a strong level. 15 a barrel is pretty strong for oil when they were paying people to take it from them earlier this week. Time for the squawk planner is it . It is yours, joe. Getting to closely watched jobless numbers. More than 4. 3 million americans are expected to have filed for jobless claims that number rose on the earnings front, well hear from eli lily, blackstone, dominos. Well see if dominos has the same type of positive numbers like chipolte. Nobody eats at dominos intel is reporting after todays close. Now, andrew. Now. You were eager this better be good. You know, im just doing the update on the pandemic numbers as we do every morning it is not good it is not good global cases have risen to 2. 6 million. U. S. Cases 842,000 with
It brings unemployment claims down to 22 million in the past four weeks and that essentially wipes out all the jobs created sin the financial crisis we know the dapta was going to be bad and will continue to be bad because this is reflecting periods that arent april, and we know april will be even worse. Right these are daunting historic we look at them, we must think about what was happening, say, in 1930, 1931. We realize that the system may hold, may not hold i think were in a stronger position than then because they didnt have a social safety net, but these kinds of layoffs, theyre extraordinary. And we are at a loss for words for them obviously, all these people are now in some way or another getting compensated this week. But i think its not enough, and i keep thinking that the longer we dont have and its not opening or closing america the longer we dont have faith in being with each other, youre going to have to keep seeing these numbers. I have to tell you, i was hoping i never
A deadly bus that put the international spotlight on violence against women in the country. Im told me a lot of well welcome to the program. Is really is reporting more deaths from corona virus than any other nation in the world including china the original epicenter of the pandemic at least 3405. 00 people have now died from the virus in italy the country has recorded over 41000 infections the region alone body is the worst hit so many people have died then recent days that symmetries on no longer able to cope. Theyve had to call in the army to help move the dead. This is the worst hit area of what is now the country with the most covert 19 dead. And its least lombardy region. Those trying to help the living are struggling to cope. Well working in a state a very high stress and tension psychological stress has gone through the roof unfortunately we cant contain the situation in lombardy theres a high level of contagion and were not even counting the dead anymore. Look at the news that
The coronavirus in one city the army is taking the dead elsewhere for burial because cemeteries are overwhelmed. Just 4 men are executed in india punishments while gang rape on the delhi bus and put the international spotlight on violence against women in the country. Im told me a logical welcome to the Program California is are being advised to stay at home to slow the spread of the corona virus as infections in the us gov Gavin Newsome says residents have to severely curtail their movements to prevent the Health System from being overwhelmed by 19 patients it falls on unprecedented alert from the u. S. State Department Americans have been not to travel out of the country under any circumstances citizens abroad should return to the country immediately or they will all unless they plan to remain overseas. U. S. Airports are grinding to a halt this empty airport in seattle reflects a nationwide attempt to curb further spreading of the coronavirus instructions to isolate are also becomin