Word: bor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plight of the Partisans. The Soviet pause in front of Warsaw left the Polish partisans, who had risen up against the Germans in the city, in a desperate fix.The underground leader, General Bor, complained that Red artillery had not been heard on the Warsaw approaches since Aug. 3. Unless help arrived soon, he said, his patriot forces would be "totally exterminated." The Germans were attacking with planes and tanks; the partisans had no artillery...
Tragedy in Warsaw. Meanwhile in Warsaw another tragic act in the Polish drama was ending. The underground revolt against the Germans, led by "General Bor" (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), was all but crushed. Through London, General Bor reported: for the past fortnight the Red Army had not pressed the assault on Warsaw. Implication: the Russians had deliberately allowed the Germans to liquidate Warsaw's pro-London patriots...
...still another coal strike diminished last week, when John L. Lewis and about two-thirds of the nation's bituminous coal operators (with the other third likely to follow) signed a contingent two-year, no-strike contract-conceding Leader Lewis' wage demands. Contingencies: i) the War La" bor Board must approve the contract; 2) somebody, either OPA or Congress, must let the operators charge more for their coal...
...Force. Russian bombing attacks were focused on the central front, in the Smolensk-Bryansk-Orel sector, where 90 Nazi divisions are concentrated. Russian bombardiers blasted, and left burning, railway depots, trains, fuel and ammunition dumps at Bryansk, Karachev, Smolensk and Roslavl, and technical and engineering supply depots at Krasni Bor. The heaviest single attack was a 520-plane blast against the big German rail and supply base of Orel. Bomb and fire damage to supply depots and railways was heavy. When the Nazis railroaded supplies out of vulnerable Orel to Karachev and Bryansk the next day, Red bombers attacked...
...troubles, Wendell Willkie could thank many factors: human nature, because of which an outspoken man makes nearly as many enemies as friends; the American political system, whose rules are designed to discourage any man from starting at the top; the back-breaking !:-bor of bringing off an ideological revolution inside a party still run largely by men schooled in Smoot-Hawley foreign policy and Warren Harding "normalcy...