Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next morning early we were swamped with telephone calls. The British Embassy wanted copies-the Psychological Warfare Branch asked for copies to be distributed to its operators throughout the Balkans-the Yugoslav Legation placed a sizable order for Tito and his staff. Rest camps and hospitals were quick to ask for more, and all hotels in Rome frequented by Fifth Army men on leave sold out in a few hours...
Soldiers Must Learn. Base camps, of which there are 135, are dreary barracks behind double fences of barbed wire. Branch camps (308), located near job sites, are winterized tents in which P.W.s keep warm around little pot stoves. Inside these various stockades the prisoners are bitterly waiting...
Allied airmen last week reported that the Germans were moving troops eastward in The Netherlands, north of the Lek (northern branch of the lower Rhine). This might foretell a Nazi evacuation of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague. It might mean that the Germans were afraid of being cut off in the western Netherlands by an Allied push to the Zuider Zee. More probably, it meant that they needed the Dutch garrison to help man the Rhine. As against 70 or 80 divisions in December, Rundstedt was now estimated to have no more than 40 or 50 in the west. Since...
...advance of the Allied offensive, the 365th got orders to work out on railroads along the Rhine. The Mad Polack's record in three days of mediocre strafing weather: 13 locos blown up; four steam-spewers, one enemy tree branch captured (and brought home in his engine cowling...
Behind the grant lay a snarl of politics, tangled even for Cuba. In last year's election the Confederation of Cuban Workers fought against Grau, supported President Fulgencio Batista, who had legalized the Communist Party (now called the Popular Socialist Party), helped its labor branch develop political force...