Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arnim, at whose heavy face the U.S. got its first look last week (see cut). Arnim might find a soft spot in the positions of the entrenched British First Army, be able to bend back the upper jaws of the trap. Like Rommel, Arnim hoped to hamper Allied concentration, demolish Allied equipment - anything to delay the showdown. After hot hand-to-hand fighting he pushed the British out of the one village (Sedjenane), lost 3,000 men, 30 tanks. The British said that their losses were light. They still held Beja and Medjez-el-Bab - and Arnim was frustrated until...
...gets air power on the Seversky scale, it will have bombers and multi-engined fighters able to fly 15,000 and even 25,000 miles, demolish any city on the globe, then return to their U.S. bases without refueling. And by the same token, says Sascha de Seversky, U.S. enemies will have fleets capable of visiting the same destruction on the U.S. He thinks that fleets of such planes can just about take over the main jobs of war, leaving only incidental mopping-up to ground armies and surface navies...
Outnumbered 10-to-1 in the air, 3-to-1 on the ground, beset by natives who feared the Japs more than they liked the British, the Allies all but conceded the loss of Burma last week. As the retreating British prepared to demolish the oilfields and refineries in their rear, TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden visited the front where Chinese troops defended Burma under U.S. command. His dispatch follows...
Axis strategy has been to divide enemy forces and demolish them fragment by fragment. Allied strategy, which became obvious the moment the Americas fell into the war, is to prevent any further division. The Allies, possessing the great land masses of the world and the great sea bastions between them, must temper their chain and let no link be broken. Then, with unified, coordinated action, they must use the chain to beat the enemy down...
...course will teach the prospective wardens elementary gas-preventive measures, how to demolish buildings, and what action to take if incendiary bombs should break through the roof. It will demonstrate how wardens must be organized into units so as to keep the report center informed as to extent of damage and need for outside aid; such damage for example, as debris cluttering the streets broken gas mains and unexploded time bombs...