Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clearing for action, Shaef spruced up its chain of command, announced a shift made last week. Back to Lieut. Gen. Omar D. Bradley 's 21st Army Group went the American First Army which had been shifted to Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st Group during the Battle of the Bulge. Shaef censors let out a delayed dispatch saying that the coiled American Ninth, also once part of Bradley's command, remained under Britain's Montgomery in the 12th Army Group...
...dispute Allied control of the sea lanes. Instead, their own cargo carriers and escort craft were being bombed and strafed from Indo-China to the Ryukyus. Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet carriers (16, by enemy count) sent planes up & down the coast and the island chain. They hammered Hong Kong, Swatow, Amoy and Canton in China; Takao on Formosa; Okinawa in the Ryukyus. Primarily, their job was to keep the Japs from flying planes or shipping supplies and reinforcements to Luzon. Also, if an enemy naval force should appear, Halsey would be ready...
Wanting, last main link in the new Allied supply chain to China (see above), fell last week after a savage fight for the high ground dominating the town. From that battlefield, TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White cabled...
...President are alike in many respects. Both have been severely racked by illness. The clinical history of Harry Hopkins would alone fill a book, and his friends talk as freely of his illnesses as they do of his other characteristics, like chain-smoking, his fierce pride, his easy rationalizations, or the lean, gaunt frame on which his clothes hang with scarecrow looseness...
...buyers hunting for more goods. One lucky find just before Christmas 1943: 400-odd electric train sets. Thus, when the stocks of competitors were running out, Gimbel stores were boldly advertising sales of scarce goods. Many a new customer was thus lured into a Gimbel store. Example: the chain's $3½-million-inventory of nylon and silk stockings lasted well into 1943, an irresistible lure for women who buy an estimated 85% of all retail merchandise sold...