Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richard Edes Harrison's Look at the World- Alfred A. Knopf ($3.50); OWI's A War Atlas for Americans-Simon & Schuster ($2.50); Fairfield Osborn's The Pacific World-W. W. Norton & Co. ($3); David Greenhood's Down to Earth- Holiday House ($4); Erwin Raisz's Atlas of Global Geography-Harper & Bros. ($3.50); Nicholas Spykman's The Geography of the Peace -Harcourt, Brace & Co. ($2.75); Irving Fisher & 0. M. Miller's World Maps and Globes- Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...protect the Americans' Cotentin operation, the Allies had to guard against interference by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's mobile reserves. To this task Ike Eisenhower assigned a British-Canadian army which drove swiftly inland to Bayeux and Caen, and cut the Germans' main supply road and railway from the east...
...there was also the renewal of a historic personal conflict. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Cromwellian conqueror of North Africa, was in command of all the Allied ground forces. Across from him was the canny, brilliant German field marshal he had met and beaten in North Africa. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the "Old Fox," was readying his forces (under Germany's Supreme Commander, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt) to strike back again...
...General Erwin Rommel's honor was vindicated when a German woman got three months in Aachen concentration camp for remarking: "I had to run faster than Rommel did in Africa...
...plant in Rhode Island. Detroit itself was almost without bread as the result of a walkout of 1 ,000 bakery drivers. In nearby Saginaw, Mich., 2,800 workers were out in three Chevrolet plants, as a result of a fight over a no-smoking rule. Usually mild Charles Erwin Wilson, president of vast General Motors, said Detroit was approaching "industrial anarchy...