Word: frees
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Klebergs agreed to let the road go through. Last week it was opened. Typically Texan was the celebration. Caravans arrived from San Antonio. Houston, Orange, Corpus Christi. Louisiana, Mexico and the Valley. There were 1,500 Boy Scouts on hand. In most of the Valley towns there were free lunches. Army bands. Variously they had a rodeo, a wild-animal act, performing elephants, sound trucks. A song. Along the Bay, was written for the occasion. There was a special Christmas vespers service...
Walter Reuther did not take the angry compliment as an offer, stayed with his union. Now he directs its activities in General Motors plants. Last fortnight he bounced into Washington with an idea for sale-free. He wanted to give it away to Defense Commissioner Knudsen, President Roosevelt, anybody else who would use it. His idea: let the U. S. Government take the automobile industry in hand, mobilize its vast capacity for aircraft manufacture...
...additional tanks and armored vehicles the Army possessed were scattered among older services. It took Hitler's Panzer divisions to wake up the U. S. Army. The lone Seventh Brigade suddenly grew (on paper) into a full-fledged armored force. Tank-minded pioneers were given command, plus a free hand to concentrate practically all of the Army's mechanized equipment in two divisions...
...Blitzmas shortage of nourishing food but instead of "Christmas goose," turkey or other high-priced fowl* most people, including the armed forces, chomped cheap Empire beef or mutton on Dec. 25. Officers of about the rank of colonel, if at all prosperous themselves, generally treated their men to free beer...
...disabled. Shortages of food, medicine and clothing were tying up the task of resettling half a million refugees from the ceded areas. And the rest of the world, which had loudly applauded Finland's gallant fight last winter, turned its sympathies to new underdogs in the fall. Though free and independent, Finland was thoughtlessly classed with the conquered and occupied countries of Europe. Its relief problems were loosely lumped with those of nations under the Axis thumb. Many people misguidedly feared that help for unblockaded Finland, which was in fact in the same international position as Portugal or Switzerland...