Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read the War Department record of Mrs. Isbelle's grandson, Private Lewis Stall, as a rifle crack, an Army marksman. Then Sam Rayburn rolled out some red-hot secret figures on the U.S. war effort-figures so secret that newsmen, who had known them for weeks, had not dared to tell them. But the Speaker of the House is not subject to censorship. Said Sam Rayburn: "More than 3,300 planes are pouring out of our factories monthly . . . tank production is ahead of schedule, with one company alone turning out an entire trainload daily. . . ." He said that...
Near her in the quiet fjord lay the crack 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen. She had been badly shaken. But Britain's airmen made no bet that the Eugen would not soon be ready for work again...
More than any other of the crack relicts of the old Navy who now serve under him, Raeder has always been a man of one idea: the Navy must be rebuilt, must again fight on (and not only under...
Farther south the German pockets held. So did the Russian spearheads, thrust deep into the German lines. Near Kalinin, northwest of Moscow, the Russians announced that they had finally beaten off a fierce five-day counterattack by crack German troops, had killed 2,400, knocked out 25 tanks...
...recent Cabinet shakeup, the Churchill Government is still more Right than Left. But the press, moving steadily to the Left, week by week has become more outspoken in its criticism of the Government. When Churchill saw that the Government's position was slipping further, he ordered Morrison to crack down. Leftists and countless other Britons had the horrible recollection that suppression of the press immediately preceded the collapse of France...