Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Istanbul's blacked-out station two plain clothesmen marched a big-nosed, big-mustached man. They put him forcibly aboard the Sofia express. He was Peter Grabowsky, Minister of the Interior and Bulgaria's No. 1 Jew baiter in Premier Filov's cabinet. Ten days before, he had arrived in Turkey with forged identification papers. U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt urged the Turks to send him back where death or jail await...
...even with Cherbourg and the beaches, pipelines and planes, Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley 's armies would never have reached the Reich as swiftly had it not been for the Red Ball Express Highway. The R.B.E. is a one-way road which begins at Cherbourg and swings in a great loop, roughly south and east, to a point several hundred miles east of Paris...
...returns to Cherbourg again by a parallel route. On this express belt some 9,000 trucks roll day & night at 40 miles an hour - at night with headlights ablaze, for speed is necessary and the German air force negligible. Every 30 or 40 miles, maintenance companies are stationed to make quick repairs...
...Here are the 20 editions of TIME, printed on every continent except Antarctica. TIME U. S. (four printings) Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Classroom; TIME Canadian; TIME Air Express for Latin America (five printings); Export, Mexico City, Bogotá, Buenas Aires, Sào Paulo; TIME Overseas (three printings); Export Honolulu, Stockholm; TIME for the Armed Forces (seven printings); Pony, Pacific Pony, VMail, Sydney, Calcutta, Teheran, Cairo...
...conversation snagged on business. It seemed that Major Paid D. Shriver, Regional Property Control Officer at Rome, reported home that 40 American firms with Roman investments representing some $30,000,000 had spent the whole war in Rome in the best of health. The firms included'' American Express, Otis Elevator, International Business Machines, General Electric, Eastman Kodak, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Brothers and a dog track...