Word: bolognas
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...Chatham, Ont., Butcher James Edmonson exhorted his colleagues: "Let's shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...
...Allies seemed to be taking a warlike census of historic Italian cities. Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army swept northward from Bologna, spanned the Po's yellow waters and raced for the mountains. They bypassed Mantua, Virgil's homeland Verona, the town of Romeo and Juliet. Milan, Italy's No. 1 industrial city, was occupied; so was Turin...
...Nazi troops, who had fought with fanatical skill through the long winter months, broke suddenly as General Mark Clark sent his armies forward. Down from the mountains came Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army. Its leading divisions wheeled east toward Bologna. Lieut. General Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army drove up from the Adriatic coast, blocked escape routes from Bologna and sent a column west for the city...
...Bologna the two armies met. Almost simultaneously Eighth Army Polish troops under Major General Bohusz-Szyszko moved in from the southeast, while Fifth Army Americans, supported by Italian partisans, entered from the southwest. They found a city almost undamaged, soberly rounding up its Fascists, Italian and German...
There was no time to celebrate. Northward the German armies were stretched out on the roads, vulnerable to attack. Brazilian Expeditionary Corps troops and U.S. units swung by Bologna, bypassed the road center of Modena and drove to the Po. Overhead Allied flyers roared, flashed down to strafe the marching enemy; in one day 1,700 Nazi vehicles were destroyed or damaged...