Word: casablanca
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...Opened the doors for speculation that he might be planning a war conference with Premier Joseph Stalin. Reminded that when he returned from Casablanca he indicated that he hoped for an eventual meeting with Stalin, he was asked if plans had taken any definite shape. Not yet, he said, almost winking...
Supplies for the North. From primary bases in the United Kingdom and the U.S. it is 1,400-3,700 miles to west North African ports. It is from there that the central and northern Tunisian fronts are fed. Supplies are landed chiefly at Casablanca on the Atlantic and carried 1,100 miles overland, or at Algiers on the Mediterranean and hauled 450 miles overland...
...first days of the invasion Allied engineers struggled with antiquated French locomotives which huffed & puffed along the dilapidated, single-track railway which starts at Casablanca, touches Algiers and runs on to Tunis. With U.S. rolling stock, U.S. railroad men were able to double the road's capacity...
...than Mrs. Miniver) at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, it had played to more than 1,550,000 people. Another Manhattan record: Star Spangled Rhythm finished an eight-week run, longest in the huge Paramount Theater's history. Yankee Doodle Dandy ran 27 weeks on Broadway; Casablanca was in its 15th...
...rose Texas Representative Fritz Lanham to read a letter he had received from his constituent with the Army Air Forces in North Africa, Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt. Having seen the Lambertson charges in a newspaper brought to Casablanca by his father, Lieut. Colonel Roosevelt wrote...