Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic conveyor belt may start moving soon. According to reports published last fall, and in the Daily News last week, Army fields in Greenland are or soon will be ready for use. The Army already has airfields in Iceland, where U.S. Major General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel has taken over the command of all troops from Britain's Major General Henry Osborne Curtis. Last week General Curtis received the Distinguished Service Medal, first U.S. decoration awarded to a Briton in World...
...civilian had now run smack against the facts of war. With ration books in pockets and purses, the citizenry would soon know that World War II was too vast and too desperate for 1918's skimpy, voluntary, gasless Sunday belt-tightening. This looked like a real...
Please help me explain the following TIME statement to a group of wheat belt high-school students: "In short, labor has a good thing in the war, a better thing than any other large group except possibly the farmers...
Argentina was paying a high price for her pride. But she named whip-smart, young C. (for Ceferino) Alonso Irigoyen chairman of a new Interdepartmental Committee on Economic Policy to tackle the crisis, pulled in her belt, disregarded hints...
...with highest honors. His wife graduated in the same class. Then Old McDonald set out to convert Oklahoma because "Oklahoma was bound for hell as straight and as fast as an Indian could shoot an arrow." The McDonalds settled in Sallisaw, on the edge of the outlaw and moonshine belt. There, when one "man killed another no one bothered him because the community considered the killing was an execution and not a murder...