Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy needed bolstering. Occupied countries had to be warned that Germany was on the alert for any defections...
...coastguardmen. One reason: Higbee in a seaman's uniform tried once to board a vessel, was ordered off by the guard. Pulling his dinghy to the other side, he tried again. This time he was knocked over the side. Next day Higbee commended his alert guard. Said he: "You don't get around only to catch up with the bums...
...fairness to the Army, however, it has been more alert and has done more towards the integration of the Negro into its ranks than has the Navy. But this integration has been more of a condescending acceptance of the Negro--because men are needed to fight wars--than a serious and sincere attempt to make him an actual part of the Army...
...round-the-clock raids, instead of more massive but sporadic attacks, had been best set forth by Major General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain. His reasons: 1) to inflict maximum damage; 2) to keep enemy defenses on a 24-hour alert; 3) to force maintenance of both day & night fighters in Western Europe...
...Alert to the urgency of beating a strategic retreat back to the merchandising methods of a century ago, 17-year-old Independent Grocers Alliance has ready for its 5,000 independent grocers a 70-item drug and cosmetic line. To catch the wartime gardener, I.G.A. stores will soon sell fertilizers, seeds, garden tools and clothes, insecticides. They also plan to stock dry goods, notions, baby supplies, glassware, hardware. Other grocer associations, big chains and supermarkets are sending bewildered buyers to explore new wholesale markets for fast-selling staples...