Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were no further clues to the possible invasion points which had been "pretty well settled" at Casablanca. Amateur strategists, taking a hint from Winston Churchill's visit to Turkey (TIME, Feb. 8), speculated over an invasion of the Balkans-a drive similar to the Allied campaign which helped crack the German juggernaut in 1918. These were speculations which the nation was willing to leave to the masters of high strategy...
...Africa but they were not all in Tunisia; many of the U.S. troops in action were green, most of the French ill equipped. Against them were upward of 150,000 hardened, battlewise troops, including the remnants of Erwin Rommel's tough if battered army, and at least one crack Panzer division-the Tenth, which had fought in Poland, France, Russia. German equipment was excellent. On to the battlefields last week rumbled the new, mighty Mark VI tank, heavily armored and hard to stop. Hitler had poured an estimated one-third of his entire air force into the North African...
There might be one soft spot in the Axis defense. But no one on the Allied side knew for sure how big it was or how soft. The London News Chronicle's veteran war correspondent Philip Jordan sensed a crack-up in morale. He hazarded the guess that the Germans might be preparing to evacuate without a real fight. "I think that other than armored units, which are the basis of defense, the enemy is removing his best troops from Tunisia and replacing them by men who are expected to do no more than hold the defensive positions until...
...Dwight David Eisenhower. When he was appointed Chief of the Allied Forces in North Africa, with American, British and French land, sea & air forces under him, there was no longer any doubt that 52-year-old "Ike" Eisenhower was to be the Pershing of 1943. His immediate responsibility: to crack Tunisia, a nut which was beginning to look tougher every day. His probable eventual responsibility: to invade Europe...
...because they needed cash to buy an ever-rising flood of Government bonds. Whatever the reason, this is a good break for private investors: 1) it makes up for the wartime slack in new municipal financing (towns & cities cannot get materials for new construction); 2) it gives them a crack at topflight bonds which have a good yield and are tax-exempt to boot. Result: private investors have already bought enough municipal bonds to knock the floating supply down to about $50,000,000-a mere drop in the market compared with the potential demand...