Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a general pinpointing a breakthrough of the enemy on battle maps, Kleberg has traced the progress of the disease northward. At week's end, the epidemic was only 300 miles away from his southernmost fences. Cried Bob Kleberg: "This thing has to be stopped even if it is necessary to spend $1 billion in Mexico. I'm in favor of replacing every slaughtered work animal with a free mule or ox, and sending Mexicans the cattle to restock their ranges. It would be cheap at the price...
Patton admits that he did not at first realize the seriousness of the Nazis' breakthrough in the Battle of the Bulge. As late as Dec. 25, 1944, he wrote optimistically: "Christmas dawned clear and cold; lovely weather for killing Germans. . . ." By Jan. 4, he confided to his diary: "We can still lose this war . . . the only time I ever made such a statement." The plan for the Third Army's subsequent breakthrough, Patton claims, was in his head complete as he awoke one morning: "Whether these tactical thoughts of mine are the result of inspiration or insomnia...
Last week, after a slight sag, the industrials broke through again, rising to a new 1947 high of 186.85. Once more, the rails failed to follow the breakthrough. To the strict Dow theorists, it was still a bear market, though some were trying to weasel through a semantic loophole: the so-called bear market might be only a large scale reaction in the wartime bull market...
...France, the worst damage had been done in the Cherbourg-Calais-Rouen triangle, during the slow, crunching offensives that set up the U.S. breakthrough. Caen had felt Montgomery's massed artillery, but its nth Century Abbaye-aux-Hommes survived. Rouen Cathedral was the only major French church in partial ruin, but it had not been "nearly so hard-hit as Reims was in World War I. From Saint-Lõ forward, U.S. guns had chopped down church steeples to blast out snipers...
...most powerful and honored figures in France, one of the closest confidants of its President Charles de Gaulle. He had capped a brilliant career as chief of the Gaullist Intelligence Service by dramatically parachuting into Brittany to command French resistance forces at the moment of Patton's breakthrough...