Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi commander at Riga, a colonel general named Schemer, seemed bent on holding it all winter, ice or no ice. The town was girdled by a 25-mile belt of ferroconcrete pillboxes, tank traps and barbed wire. According to Soviet reporters, Schemer executed German troops who showed signs of wavering; eleven soldiers found skulking in a movie house were shot in the streets. Izvestia made the statement that 800 German tanks were hurled into the defense of Riga, that 500 of them were knocked out by Red fire...
...Kiplinger had problems galore. General "Hap" Arnold was approached on the eve of the invasion of France, barely found time to fling a polite refusal. Henry Wallace had vest trouble-his shirt showed above his trouser line. Once that was adjusted, the Vice President struck a satisfactory, thumb-in-belt attitude. John L. Lewis loomed rather than posed, as though facing a hostile audience...
...returns to Cherbourg again by a parallel route. On this express belt some 9,000 trucks roll day & night at 40 miles an hour - at night with headlights ablaze, for speed is necessary and the German air force negligible. Every 30 or 40 miles, maintenance companies are stationed to make quick repairs...
...shackles, said Jimmy. Had housewives grumbled under rationing? There would be mountains of food. Czar Jimmy promised plenty of everything, and the removal of all possible controls. The Byrnes statement looked like politics but also good sense, for it was now plain that the U.S. had pulled in its belt tight enough and long enough to have a surplus of almost everything when Germany quits...
...many an Allied observer, fresh from belt-tightened Britain, Europe's farms looked unexpectedly lush and prosperous, Europeans looked surprisingly healthy and well-fed. Much of the appearance was misleading. In Western Europe, the well-to-do had enough to eat. But among the poorer population, particularly in the city slums, there was not enough food. Nowhere did the liberators see starvation. But constant semi-starvation and diet deficiencies were leaving their mark on a whole European generation...