Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows whether he will attack India when the monsoon ends and the steaming, water-clogged delta lands of the Brahmaputra valley begin to dry. But a quick successful thrust at Calcutta could cripple 70% of India's war effort. From the Andaman Islands the Jap could crack by sea and air at the Trincomalee naval base in Ceylon, at Madras and at Calcutta...
...Canny, crack-voiced Ezra Stone, 24, the script's top drawing card, started as Henry Aldrich in the stage play, What a Life, from which the radio serial was concocted. The script was a summer fillin, but Ezra's adolescent croaks and bleats so delighted radio listeners that The Aldrich Family emerged in the fall of 1939 as a full-fledged weekly show, soon had an audience of millions...
Franklin Roosevelt finally admitted that the Price Control Act had proved a flop, because the Administration was afraid to crack down on wage inflation and Congress was afraid to stop farm inflation. He had a feeling, he told his press conference, that the nation was being whipsawed between labor and farm groups. Without prompt action, food prices might rise another 30%, the cost of living would get out of hand. So he was ready to stabilize both wages and farm prices. The best guarantee that he meant what he said was that he arranged to break the news...
...trace of several Catholic nuns who had been on the islands). The clatter of the Jap machine gun, firing at Lieut. Le-François, first told Colonel Carlson that his landing had been detected. Then the Marines heard the hard chatter of truck and motorcycle engines, the flat crack of snipers' bullets from the palms. One by one the snipers were killed, but they did not fall from the trees. For many days, so the handsome and friendly Polynesians on the island told Colonel Carlson, the Japs had been strapped into the trees, occasionally receiving food and water...
...account has been taken of the crack-up stage in German morale, inevitable in an air offensive of great magnitude. In any consideration of this point it must be borne in mind that...