Word: rears
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...France, down across submissive Spain, at Gibraltar; 2) sending troops from Hitler's pool of 1,000,000 men in Austria (see map) to put some spine into the Italian armies now afield; 3) sending troops from the smaller pool in Rumania, to attack Greece from the rear across Bulgaria...
...labor gangs and conscript regiments. Seyyid Idris was one of Commander in Chief General Sir Archibald Wavell's chief advisers in planning the war against Graziani, and last week, as that war went so amazingly well, his followers were reported rising through the desert back country, sabotaging Italian rear areas, slitting Italian throats...
...Fleet Air Arm blinded the enemy. British squadrons bombed airfields from Sidi Barrani right to Tripoli. For hours the Italians could only guess what was happening. At the same time the British Fleet swung in to bombard Maktila, Sidi Barrani and the Italians' road to the rear. The Italians were attacked simultaneously from the right (land) flank by tanks, from the left (sea) flank by the fleet, from the top (air) flank...
...Samuel Spencer, president of Southern Railway System, riding on his railway in Virginia, was killed in a rear-end collision. Last week Ernest E. Morris, president of Southern, was riding on his railroad in Georgia (aboard the Ponce de Leon) when the equalizer bar on a diner up ahead broke. The broken bar hit a frog switch, derailed four Pullmans, hurled the last two official cars off a 20-foot trestle, fractured President Norris' skull and left...
...rail-racing, far more exciting to watch, cars usually race in threes (against time) around a banked wooden oval, one-sixteenth of a mile in circumference. They cling to the oval's steel rails by means of ball-bearing rollers (attached to the front and rear axles), which fit under the rails' flanges...