Word: baum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They stormed inside and opened the gates to 4,500 Allied prisoners. Some took to the woods and mountains, others were too weak to escape. German tanks closed in on Baum's remaining half-dozen tanks. Baum was wounded and captured. His force was wiped out and all but seven of his men were captured or killed...
...assignment was tall, quiet Captain (now Major) Abraham Baum. His task force: 301 men, 53 armored vehicles. They took off, thundering out obliquely from the main course of Patton's spectacular drive...
...country was solidly held by the enemy. Baum's force crashed through Aschaffenburg. German rocket and small-arms fire riddled them. They lost men and vehicles. They hit Gemünden, where a whole German division had just unloaded. They destroyed 50 cars in the railroad yards and "barreled through...
...Exploit. Apparently convinced that the whole 4th Division was driving through, the Germans rushed in men and weapons, counterattacked with tanks. A German plane spotted Baum's column. All that day, in Gemünden, Baum and his men fought desperately. They freed 500 Russians from a stalag. Finally, with the remnants of their force, they assaulted Hammelburg...
Dolls. Doll production was held up by a lack of suitable stuffing and paint. Low-priced textiles for dolls' clothes were scarce. After thoroughly combing the market, Fleischaker & Baum Co. gave up the search for human hair for their life like EffanBee Dolls. (Prewar EffanBee Dolls wore human hair imported from Italy and China.) In Leominster, Mass., F. A. Whitney Carriage Co. was ready to make doll carriages again, but could not recruit enough ex-war workers who were willing to work for peacetime wages...