Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Everyone is hearing a lot about building extra locks for the Panama Canal in case a lock was destroyed by air-attack from bombers [TIME, Aug. 28]. Could not the extra lock be put out of operation just as easily as the present one, if not the same day, the next day? Then, why not put a lid over the present locks and make them bombproof? This could be done by building a number of bascule leaves over the locks, making the leaves as near bombproof as possible, and adding further protection by having ten or twelve-foot standards...
...infiltration forces found the way, France's 70-ton "rolling fortresses" next trundled forth, followed by more infantry. Main function of these monsters, hurling 3-in. shells, is to wipe out all remaining "pockets" of resistance and ultimately carry the attack to the main defenses...
Strategy of General Gamelin's push in the Saar was to draw German troops from the Eastern Theatre to meet a threatened grand attack-or he was shrewdly waiting for the Germans to get even further into Poland before turning on the real heat. Just as France's main Maginot Line is manned by veteran regulars, with young reservists performing the attack work, so Germany's Wall is manned by 20 divisions (some 250,000 men) of the regular Land-wehr, mostly veterans of 35-45, specially trained for defense. For sallies and counterattack which the Germans...
...Warsaw's southwestern suburbs, but there the main German forces soon arrived, too, and Warsaw was hemmed in on at least two sides. To its defense from the west came Polish divisions retreating in good order out of the big pocket formed around Poznan, where the Nazi attack had been light for fear of harming the thick German population. With other reinforcements from the east, Warsaw's defenders dug in on the Vistula's right bank, lobbing their shells over the city at the gathering Germans...
Even on the prickly problem of Labor, the institute was in harmony. Catholic Missionary Edward L. Stephens asserted that workers have a duty to become members of "free unions, independent of companies, and guided by Christian principles of charity and justice." Rabbi Robert Gordis called upon the Church to "attack specific evils by urging specific remedies. Such problems as child labor, cooperatives, housing, minimum wages, are examples . . . where the Church should . . . strive to galvanize its membership into action." Methodist Episcopal Bishop Francis J. McConnell suggested that the Church set "its own economic house in order," declared: "It is nothing short...