Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Objective. All the Russian pronouncements indicate that the Red objective is now to destroy the enemy army. Said the Army's Red Star: "Our main task is to prevent the enemy from escaping and to destroy their armed forces. When these are smashed, the fortresses will fall by themselves...
...American) were from artillery fire. In World War II it uses new, time-fire shells far more accurate than shrapnel and six times as destructive against personnel as regular shells which explode on the ground. It masses fire at speeds inconceivable 25 years ago. In seconds it can destroy targets that once took minutes, sometimes hours...
Four months ago certain U.S. and British officials met in deepest secrecy to discuss one prime necessity for any invasion of the continent-invasion currency. Since retreating armies usually destroy currency, to disrupt the civilian economy and hinder occupying forces, the officials knew that Allied invasion forces must bring their own currency...
...finally decides to stick it out. Brad is assigned by a chemistry professor to guard a secret formula; it is mysteriously stolen and he is bounced out on his ear. By way of Tokyo he eventually gets to Midway and wins the Congressional Medal of Honor for helping to destroy a Japanese aircraft carrier. Death finally comes to Brad in a spectacularly heroic manner-none too soon either...
Mike Conner, campaigning this year, fired both barrels at the New Deal. Sample: "There is now being waged in this country an internal political, economic and social revolution which would change the form of our government to an absolute totalitarian state of communism or national socialism. They would destroy individual enterprise, regiment and socialize the people, nullify the Constitution and destroy the states. . . . For my part I will fight for States' rights as long as I breathe...