Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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After the scars of World War I had been harrowed from the battlefields of Europe, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg paid his respects to U. S. industry's part in Germany's defeat: "Her brilliant, if pitiless, war industry had entered the service of patriotism and had not failed it." Of the War Industries Board which put U. S. industry to work, the old warrior gravely observed: "They understood...
...Congress had authorized it to spend, it had cleared $7,660,282,000 worth of contracts for war goods. Of these contracts, only $80,000,000 worth still remained to be awarded last week by the Army & Navy. The orders: Aircraft. With a weather eye on the way Air Marshal Goring's Luftwaffe was tearing up tactics books in Europe, Bill Knudsen tackled aircraft (the "one big bottleneck") first. The President had cried for 50,000 planes. That was an impossible figure. Knudsen set his sights for a target of 35,000-25,000 for the Army...
...week's end French resistance fizzled out, on orders from Vichy. In that town of pathetic, hollow words Foreign Minister Baudouin reported to Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain that all fighting had ceased. "Hence," continued the Foreign Minister, who once made a fortune out of Indo-China, "the French-Japanese accord now goes into effect in the friendly, trustful spirit which prevailed at its establishment...
...civilian army, which is no army, even began spontaneously giving its leaders ranks. Whoever took it on himself to become the busiest, most effective shepherd in a London tube station was soon being called by the conglomerate crowd with good-humored respect their "Shelter Marshal...
...British after the fall of France) arrived at Dakar, they got the surprise of their lives. The commander dispatched two airplanes ashore with an invitation to surrender. The planes did not return. General de Gaulle and some aides-including Captain Bécourt Foch, grandson of the late Marshal-boarded a launch and made for the basin, waving a white flag and a tricolor. They were greeted by gunfire, and two aides were wounded. General de Gaulle boarded his flagship and signaled an ultimatum. Dakar rejected it. From Vichy, Minister of the Navy Admiral Jean Darlan wired: "Remember the words...