Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sentence stick as something more than a sentence torn out of context, Candidate Dewey pointed out that in traveling "down that New Deal road" there are now "55 Government corporations arid credit agencies with net assets of $27,000,000,000," that the Government now owns or operates one-fifth of all the manufacturing plants in the U.S. (Actually, most of these are war plants.) Governor Dewey charged that thus "little by little, the New Deal is developing its own form of corporate state." That, said Candidate Dewey, was why Comrade Browder favors Term IV -that and the fact that...
...Davis brothers were its founders. Ben Davis invented a synthetic wire that could replace copper wire. George Davis figured a way to produce it at one-fifth the current price. But their most novel creation was the Trans-Pecos Chemical Com., which was not a company or a corporation but a "commonwealth...
...Fifth Army headquarters in Italy had confidently announced that the Gothic Line was pierced in the center. But some how the Germans were not running. Some how there seemed to be more mountains just ahead. Somehow the Fifth was just inching along...
...York Herald Tribune Correspondent John Chabot Smith made the serious charge that on two successive days official announcements of Fifth Army progress failed to jibe with the operational maps. Headquarters lamely explained that patrols had reached forward points, then came back. Even the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes dared to raise the question with the headline: "Is or Isn't the Gothic Line Cracked?" Wrote Correspond ent Sergeant Jack Foisie...
...Fifth Army advance been slowed down to the same grudging ad vance of hill to hill - when a breakthrough of the Gothic Line has definitely been claimed? That is the question being heard from armchair strategists and also from front-line fighters who could not help but be amazed when they read: Fifth Army Cracks Gothic Line Defenses." Rivers & Rain. While the controversy stirred the rear, G.Ls in the front struggled patiently with the tenacious Ger mans. The Americans fell back before a counterattack, riposted to regain lost ground and more. By week's end, Raticosa Pass was captured...