Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back pay and an additional $21,000,000 a year in future wages. The Wall Street Journal estimated that WLB's formula, if applied to all industry, would raise the purchasing power of U.S. workmen by $3,500,000,000 a year-enough to blow Price Boss Leon Henderson's ceilings to smithereens...
...under General Grigory Stern stood on its arms, waiting for the Japanese under General Seishiro Itagaki to strike east from Manchukuo against Vladivostok, north toward Lake Baikal to cut the Trans-Siberian Railroad. If the slashes struck deep, Russia's wounds might be mortal. If Russia parried the blow, her defense would call for a new U.S. aerial front based in Siberia, with Japan the target of its attack. But thousands of Japs in the Aleutians barred...
...Blow. Even so, it was easy to exaggerate what the Germans actually accomplished last week. They did not yet have the entire Don valley. They did not yet entirely command the valley's vital railway communications from Moscow and Stalingrad. They did not yet have control of the Voronezh area, which the Russians defended at all costs for its rail communications and its value as an anchor for the Red army's sagging southern line. The Nazis had the important manufacturing city of Voroshilovgrad, but they did not yet have Rostov, important for its factories, for access...
Like the Battle of the Coral Sea, Midway was a triumph of air power. Land-based aircraft from the island struck the first blow and gave the Jap enough to make him turn back. But carrier-based craft, launched as the Jap retired, did even greater damage. The carrier planes (plus Army Flying Fortresses) drove the Jap back into the shelter of the Mandates and the cover of thick weather with only the remnants of his mighty invasion fleet...
...simultaneous blow at Alaska-struck by two aircraft carriers, several cruisers and destroyers, two seaplane tenders and four to six transports-achieved a measure of success...