Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veterans of Foreign Wars were no less busy. V.F.W. Lobbyist Omar B. Ketchum advised against putting mustering-out pay too high. Said he: after all, its purpose is only to tide a man over until he gets a job. A further reason: it might block passage of a bonus bill. Twice he appeared before Congressional committees advocating a veterans' bonus like the last...
...book, in easy, gossipy pages, presents the most up-to-date picture of Germany from within. It is the picture of a war machine that is being run without provision for maintenance. It is coughing and bucking, and a couple of broken pistons are gouging into the cylinder block. Basic reason: the Nazi inability to comprehend the fallacies of their own "total" war doctrine...
Rise & Fall. More than once in the next 300 years, the Poles marched as far as Kiev; more than once men from the East, notably the Tatars, swept into Poland. Casimir the Great was the first Pole to encompass a large block of non-Poles (Ruthenians) in his domains. His great-niece, Jadwiga, married Jagiello of Lithuania in 1386. The union of the two kingdoms prospered for almost exactly 300 years; the tide did not turn until 1667 (see map). Said Ivan III of Muscovy, when Poland's expansion was in full flower: between Russians and Poles, there...
...mansion was unharmed. Longer than a city block, built in 1746, it is a fabulous place. It has 1,000 windows, 365 rooms. In days gone by it was not unusual for 200 guests to sit to a dinner served on gold plate. Queen Victoria, a guest, remarked that it was too extravagant for her. Other royal guests included King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI. The house was so vast that, the story goes, guests were given packets of wafers to strew along the corridors showing the way back to their rooms. A guest once rang...
...threw a unit of his fighters, scantily equipped with captured Nazi and Italian tanks and artillery, against Banja Luka-a rail terminus, communications center, headquarters of the Second Tank Army. After three days of fighting Tito reported that the Partisans had taken half the town, were moving through it block by block. Then the Germans rushed tanks and reinforcements from the northeast. Short of munitions, the Partisans had to pull...