Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This approach implies the existence of a French authority accepted by the people and recognized by the Allied military. Notwithstanding the President and the State Department, that authority in Normandy is the Provisional Government headed by General Charles de Gaulle (see U.S. AT WAR). There is no question whatever about this fact in Normandy. It is completely accepted by French and military alike. So remote and unreal is the question of recognition that there is no bitterness over past treatment of De Gaulle. That bitterness may come later if the U.S. Government does not ratify the unofficial fact...
...more than 2,000 lbs., will operate on a high-compression, 90-octane gasoline engine that will save its owner from 20% to 25% of his fuel bill. Other dream-features: 1) better visibility, 2) pneumatic rubber springs, 3) photoelectric cells to dim lights automatically when other cars approach, 4) a rear-mounted engine for less noise, heat and odor...
...Slow Approach. On all three sides of the city the advance on Cherbourg was like that. In the last five kilometers there was a series of such forts; an outfit might spend an afternoon moving up a few hundred yards and taking one fort and its supporting strong points. When the frontline troops had pushed on, demolition squads blew the concrete blockhouses to rubble, lest German patrols infiltrate at night and man the forts again...
...Although many listeners were deeply moved, others ("usually better educated and more sophisticated") resented Kate Smith's emotional approach. Said one: "It's a sad commentary that the American people have to be entertained to make them buy something as important as war bonds...
Diving airplanes have been reported as reaching supersonic-speeds* of 840 m.p.h. Veteran airmen raise their eyebrows at these reports, knowing that at such speeds speedometers are unreliable. But there are authenticated records of peculiar happenings at plane speeds of 500 to 600 m.p.h., which approach the velocity of sound: Examples...