Word: clevely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After almost four years of hoping, Italy was at last getting back its looted art, mostly from an Austrian salt mine where the Nazis had hidden it. The rescued treasures included such famed paintings as Bruegel's Blind Leading the Blind, Titian's Danae, Joos van Cleve's Adoration of the Magi, Palma Vecchio's Sacra Conversazione, Tiepolo's Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice...
Like many another war baby, Cleve land's loudly self-advertised Jack & Heintz, Inc. was knocked flat Tby war's hurried exit. But last week Jahco was getting back on its feet. There were some 2,000 old associates (employes) back at work, and short, sport-shirted President William S. Jack was rehiring at the rate of 1,000 a month. Most of the old benefits, soft music, free lunches, etc. were still in force, except one. Take-home pay had been cut 53%, though Bill Jack said pay will still average $2,900 a year...
Muncrief, St. L. Newhouser, Det Leonard, Wash. Gromek, Cleve. Ferriss, Boston Wolff, Wash. Benton, Det. Reynolds, Cleve Sevens, N. Y. Potter...
...Germans used the flood shrewdly, shifting their forces northward to meet the heavily mounted drive of General Henry D. G. Crerar's First Canadian Army as it swung southward from captured Cleve to chop out a protective flank for a Ruhr-aimed offensive by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's big British Second Army...
...than 350 miles apart. Since Jan. 12 the distance between them had been almost halved by the Russian avalanche toward Berlin. The fighting in the west was only "skirmishing," in Russian eyes, but in the Nazi view it was a deadly menace. The Nazis called the Canadian thrust into Cleve "only a beginning"; they were anxiously watching the British and U.S. preparations on the Roer River (see below...