Word: blitzkrieging
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...reserve-just about large enough to squash possible fifth columns. Armed with World War I French artillery, the army ordered more from Germany in 1938, received cannon but little ammunition. Under Lend-Lease it has received additional arms from the U.S., but is still pitifully equipped to resist Blitzkrieg...
...Club. A new and terrible form of offensive pressed the Russians back last week. The Germans had discarded Blitzkrieg, given their new technique a new name: Mot pulk (motorized mass movement...
...once scorned weight and mass for the lighter, faster Panzer technique, had now gone whole hog for mass. So had other armies. The achievement of Hitler's Chief of Staff Franz Haider was in giving his mass a speed and flexibility which in pace rivaled his 1939-41 Blitzkrieg...
Aghast at how quickly the civil-servant mentality can figure out committees to waste time, the new minister overhauled his top personnel in what became known as Bracken's Blitzkrieg. Since then he has built up a photographic department, given the hotfoot to BBC, made friends with U.S. correspondents, gained new respect for the M.O.I, from British newspapers...
...cinemansions were showing Soviet films. As Russian resistance to Hitler's onslaught rose, so did Americans' curiosity. At present nearly 200 theaters are playing Soviet pictures, 2,000 carry their short subjects. Variety, the bible of U.S. show business, recently made this turnabout official, crowed in its Blitzkrieg jargon: Vodka Films...