Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though the conditions varied, the time element remained fairly constant. Minor pushes lasted four days to two weeks. (Their aim: a local objective, a test of the enemy's strength, a feint.) Major offensives lasted an average of two to four weeks (on the Vitebsk front, 19 days; Orel, 30 days; Smolensk, 25 days; the first offensive into Poland, 27 days; the thrust into Estonia, 21 days...
...flat car carried his Rolls-Royce and Packard staff cars, ready to be rolled off for trips to camps away from the railheads. The train was in constant radio communication with the General's permanent headquarters; dispatch riders pursued him with secret messages...
...advertising men found Veteran Caldwell's estimate corroborated in other quarters. From all the evidence, U.S. advertising had struck some sour notes with the men in uniform. Variety, after interviewing news commentators returned from overseas, reported: "The G.I.s, they say, resent the constant emphasis on the rose-tinted postwar conditions that will prevail back home at a time when the burden of the battle must still be borne. The commentators say the fighting boys, after catching a gander at such ads in magazines and newspapers sent to the front, throw them away in disgust...
...railroads have made almost no use of electronics. "Every ship and every plane," says Caldwell, "is in constant touch with the rest of the world by radio - but every railroad train crew is utterly isolated while in motion." To stop another train, trainmen still follow the "archaic practice" of sending a brakeman up the track with a lantern or flag...
...Radio telephones for constant train-to-train and train-to-dispatcher communication...