Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nikolai Vatutin's salient was a long, narrow thrust into prewar Poland. To the Germans it looked like a dagger that could strike at Rumania, at Poland, at the last remaining rail line feeding the Wehrmacht in the Ukraine...
...Zhukov's greatest tactical gain was his blow at Nazi communications. He cut the Odessa-Lwów railroad. Three German armies still in the Ukraine had now lost their last rail line of escape, would have to retreat along the muddy country roads of Bessarabia and the Ukraine, or from the Black Sea's battered ports. Manstein apparently had waited too long to pull...
...Arms (Goldwyn-RKO). Midway of Up In Arms, a couple of soldiers lean on a rail and gaze moonily down on a deckload of Army nurses. The nurses, the 34 most eye-straining creatures Sam Goldwyn could pick for the job, are sprawled about in revealing pastel playsuits. Says one of the soldiers reverently: "Boy! We didn't have anything like that in the last war." Says the other as devoutly: "We don't have anything like it in this war, either...
Fifth District S.P.s now have a big program. One-eighth of them keep order on the main rail and ferry lines. Tougher than their Army counterparts, they take liquor away from traveling servicemen...
...banking business in America?" Unorthodox, white-haired Cyrus S. Eaton of Cleveland's Otis & Co. asked U.S. financiers this question this week in Financial World. He promptly answered it with harsh words for Manhattan's investment bankers, with whom he has long feuded over competitive bidding for rail road and utility issues. Said...