Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would now call one of the critical decisions of World War II, refused to permit emergency development of the plane because "the Luftwaffe had disappointed him too often in the past with promises" of new developments. Later, piling blunder on blunder, Hitler ordered the new fighter rigged as a "blitz bomber" against the expected Western invasion. Technically incapable of the task, it never dropped a bomb on the Normandy beachhead...
...cross-country, it is, considered extraordinary if one team sweeps the first five places, but the Crimson ten-place blitz is almost unprecedented in Ivy League competition...
...grey, blitz-battered part of London, between the Thames and St. Paul's Cathedral, is a rubble-littered hole where a 14-story office building will soon rise. Since that part of London stands on many layers of history, Archaeologist William Grimes of the London Museum got permission to dig a trench to see what lay deeper down...
...than they did only a few short weeks ago. Auto dealers reported that their stocks of new cars were down to 402,000, about 11% below a month ago, and the lowest level in more than a year and a half. Last year at this time a wave of "blitz" selling swept the auto industry as dealers frantically tried to clear out their 1953 stocks. This year no blitz selling has yet appeared. To get ready for the tough competition ahead, Studebaker cut prices on its 1955 models...
Most dealers blame overproduction for their troubles, chiefly because of the race between Ford and Chevrolet for first place. Others blame dealers themselves for the wild & woolly sales blitz last fall to clear out 1953 stocks to make room for new models. The result: customers got the idea that they could almost name their price, and they are still trying to do it. Old-line dealers think that the trouble is due to lack of sales savvy on the part of new dealers...