Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked as if the Germans, unless they waited for the city to be starved out, would be unable to crack Leningrad without a major offensive. At this stage of the Battle of Russia they seem unable to mount more than one offensive at a time. This week's was not aimed at Leningrad...
General McNair wasted no time in repetitions. The time between the two mock battles had been too short to expect much improvement in leadership, reconnaissance or defense against aircraft. He patted the engineers on their sweaty backs for crack work in blowing up bridges (for the Second), building substitutes (for the Third), threw a bouquet at the Second Armored Division for its expert crossing of the Sabine River near the battle...
Another remedy for slack discipline is more within the Army's power: a crack officers' corps-the kind the Marines and Navy have, the kind regular Army outfits had before they were diluted with citizen soldiers. In Louisiana's maneuvers its beginnings could be seen in the achievements of the engineers, in such outfits as the Armored Force and horse cavalry. It could also be seen indirectly in the low maneuver death record of the two armies (34 deaths in two weeks, three by natural causes, one suicide, the rest accidents...
...lifeline's breadth, the best-known U.S. shipping company last week was pulled out of a bad financial mess. In its 39-year history, International Mercantile Marine Co. has carried more passengers than any other U.S. line, operated crack ocean greyhounds like the Leviathan, Washington, Manhattan, America. But last week, with a $11,469,000 bond issue due Oct. 1, I.M.M. did not have nearly enough cash to meet it. Suddenly RFC jumped in, lent I.M.M. enough to pay off the entire issue...
I.M.M. spent the whole 1931-40 decade in the red, rolled up a balance sheet deficit of $27,000,000. Now the deficits are probably over. Although it lost seven ships (owned by a Belgian affiliate) to Nazi torpedoes, four crack liners to the Army and Navy, it will have at least 23 new money-making freighters to more than fill the hole. In the first half of this year, I.M.M.'s U.S. Lines cleared over $2,000,000, against only $371,000 last year...