Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last week progressed, the German thrust which had reached the sea near Abbeville curled northward. The Channel ports began to fall and with them the bases of the isolated Allied Armies. Only Dunkirk, Ostend, Zeebrugge-all shatteringly air-bombed-were left when, after gripping Boulogne and Calais, the Germans on Saturday, May 25, struck down Vimy Ridge to the coast at Gravelines...
...secret weapon" with which the German Army was last week out-blasting, outmaneuvering, outdistancing, outflanking and out-fighting the Allies in Flanders and Picardy was a secret only rhetorically. It was no secret to any competent soldier on earth, and had not been since the fall of Poland, that the German nation, sustained by 20 years' hatred for their conquerors and hardened by 20 years in the economic wringer, had by self-denial and deadly concentration built the world's most magnificent military machine in six short years under fanatical Adolf Hitler. For it the war machines...
...Heavy units of the Royal Navy, scarcely daring to contest invading forces in the narrow straits area, would probably withdraw to stations up the west British coast or down the French coast at Le Havre Cherbourg, Brest. To light units, though vulnerable to air bombs, would fall a large part of the defensive work...
Seven PK men were killed last fall in the German invasion of Poland. A few days before Nazi troops swept into Belgium and Holland, the Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau, Germany's semi-official news agency, announced that 23 PK reporters had died in action during the war-presumably 16 had been killed in Norway...
...staff go to New York for a meal and gabfest with their wartime chief. These men, who did the job once, have long been ready to do it over again, if called. But none of them was called to the War Resources Board (chairman: Ed Stettinius) last fall. Baruch himself has been consulted by the President in the current crisis, but not with any idea of giving him the job. If history repeats itself months may pass before industry, combed for "coming men," is given authority to get results...