Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guinea foothold held possibilities of a further Allied thrust into the Jap's defensive wall at Rabaul...
Curtain Raiser. The passage of this tax bill will be only a prologue. In itself, it furnishes only a foothold for an attack on the real tax problem of 1943. That problem is to raise the extra $16,000,000,000 which the President has called for in order to check inflation and put the U.S. war effort, on a 50% pay-as-you-go basis...
Washington buzzed last week with whispers about the significance of CAB's action. Rumors were: the State Department wanted to reinforce its Good Neighbor policy; the President wanted to bring Pan Am to heel; the Army likewise; the British sought a foothold in the Caribbean. Most widely heard rumor: CAB had wanted to retreat to its former position, grant no certificates to foreign companies until the entire U.S. foreign air policy had been formulated, but it was summoned into executive session, and persuaded to take action by the State Department's Adolf A. Berle...
...South Pacific fighting went into its second spring, one paradox grew plain: though the Allied position in the past year had improved infinitely, Japan's position was not correspondingly worse. The fighting had only taken up the slack in battle lines. Now each adversary had a firm foothold. The next blow would be to the other's body. The race to assemble the requisite sea and air power probably would determine where and when that blow would fall...
Success in Fire. As a climax to a week of climaxes, Rostov, the southern anchor of the whole German line and a bitterly defended place, burst into flames and fell to the attackers. Thus the Germans lost the one sure foothold for an attack in the Caucasus in the spring. Rostov's loss was the clearest indication yet that there might not be another German offensive in Russia, since any offensive would have to start all over again on a program which had once failed...