Word: counterattacks
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...been hoped. It was week's end before the Yanks drove through Trevieres to Sully, effected a firm juncture with the British and thus united the beachheads; meantime the British were still battling to close a vise around Caen and there set up an immovable roadblock against Nazi counterattack...
...Allies made a sharp counterattack against Argentine censorship last week. The sally was led by Colonel Sosthenes Behn, president of the potent International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. Argentina had ordered suspension for 24 hours of I.T. & T.'s All America Cables for the crime of transmitting a cable from Mexico to Argentina's President Edelmiro Farrell (the cable protested the deportation of an anti-Franco Spaniard to presumed death in Spain...
Fortunately, it took less than a month to get his foot out of the plaster cast. It must have been a great day for him when the military authorities notified him he would be the one U.S. correspondent to join Tito's forces and eyewitness their counterattack against the Germans at the moment of the Allied invasion across the Channel...
They fought as long as human strength endured. The Japanese enveloped their right flank. The orphans tried to counterattack. They were starved, exhausted, sick with malaria, beriberi, dysentery. They had fought without relief for three months. Skinny wrote a final entry in his diary: "Bataan is disintegrating." The counter attack failed...
Taxes and Workers. U.S. Steel's President Benjamin F. Fairless, opening the industry's counterattack before a WLB panel, last week asserted bluntly: "It is both impractical and illusory. ... The demand for such a revolutionary change becomes fantastic unless the eventual insolvency of the steel industry is desired...