Word: fortressed
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Johnson waded in. He squashed the bug in production, set up new training schools, speeded development work (especially on the famous Boeing Flying Fortress), hotfooted after new business. When in May 1941 President Roosevelt announced the super-duper heavy-bomber program, Phil Johnson was right on the ball, gave Air Chief "Hap" Arnold a four-point program which is still the framework of the $3 billion-plus U.S. bomber program. Soon he had snagged a whacking slice of the whole schedule for his own bombers...
...Sevastopol the Germans still strove to finish that fortress, thereby clearing the way to control of the Black Sea and an advance into the upper Caucasus...
...mystery of France's big, beloved old General Henri Honoré Giraud was no longer a mystery. When the 63-year-old general said he had escaped from Germany's Königstein fortress-prison by letting his ponderous body down 60 feet of self-made rope (TIME, May 11), the out-side world raised an eyebrow, suspected that Germany might have some use for a great French hero of both World Wars...
...approaches to that rear reservoir of might, where Russia's armies could be partly supplied even if most of Russia was lost. The Germans had the Crimea, they had Kerch on the Black Sea. But on their anniversary date they did not yet-not quite -have Sevastopol, the fortress which controls the Black...
...slow, it is calculated to keep concentrated columns intact, always with enough strength to protect themselves from the surrounding Russians. At Kharkov these tactics worked so well that Moscow had to admit a continued Nazi advance. At Sevastopol the Germans' brute concentration of men & metal brought that fortress to the verge of collapse in 16 days...