Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time Cohen's associates wanted to get out. It was up to Frank Cohen to buy them out, or get out too. He knew no more about gun-making than a Wall Street customer's man. But meanwhile France had fallen, the British had faced Dunkirk, and the U.S. was trying to arm. So he borrowed some money from old Wall Street cronies like Elisha Walker, paid off the Willys crowd, recapitalized Empire (keeping control) and went to work...
...link the innu merable frustrations and half-accomplishments of U.S. life with the mood of the people about the war. No publicist was powerful enough to relate the infinite, anonymous mass of individual difficulties with the upheavals of the times. A year ago last June, on the beach at Dunkirk, the democracies had a shock which gave men everywhere their first real sense of the seriousness of the war. That feeling did not endure. Last week, with Russia battered to a bloody pulp, with Japan on the brink of another war, with the U.S. facing the decision of fighting...
Great Britain replied obliquely last week to increasing pressure for a new expeditionary force. The reply: 36 pages of dispatches by General the Viscount Gort, sent while he was achieving the "Miracle of Dunkirk" in May 1940. There was no trace of the eloquence of the Dunkirk battleground in his reports, only plain speaking with a touch of understatement. > "It was clear from the outset that the ascendancy in equipment which the enemy possessed played a great part in the operations." Germany concentrated at least ten Panzer divisions against the B.E.F., threw five of them at the British rear defenses...
Fishing Boats at Dunkirk...
...time of Dunkirk, Blaisen whose career has been the navy since he was sixteen years of age, received orders from the French Admiralty to requisition as many fishing smacks as he could find. He found 40, settled them back and forth across the channel, and finished up with...